Blackmore, Susan J.
Summary: Uniquely among animals, humans are capable of imitation and so can copy from one another ideas, habits, skills, behaviors, inventions, songs and stories. These are all memes, a term first coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976. According to memetic theory, memes, like genes, are replicators, competing to get into as many brains as possible, and this memetic competition has fashioned our minds and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.5 BLAWright, Robert
Summary: An accessible introduction to the science of evolutionary psychology and how it explains many aspects of human nature. Unlike many books on the topic, which focus on abstractions like kin selection, this book focuses on Darwinian explanations of why we are the way we are--emotionally and morally--and interweaves episodes from Darwin's own life as illuminating examples. Wright deals particularly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.5 WRIChagnon, Napoleon A.
Summary: Chagnon describes his controversial life-long research among the Yanomam Indians, describing how his beliefs in the evolutionary advantages of their inherent violence have been systematically rejected by politically correct scientists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013