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The Meme Machine Susan Blackmore 1999 Oxford University Press.
Contents Foreword Preface 1. Strange creatures 2. Universal Darwinism 3. The evolution of culture 4. Taking the meme's eye view 5. Three problems with memes 6. The big brain 7. The origins of language 8. Meme-gene coevolution 9. The limits of sociobiology 10. 'An orgasm saved my life' 11. Sex in the modern world 12. A memetic theory of altruism 13. The altruism trick 14. Memes of the New Age 15. Religions as memeplexes 16. Into the Internet 17. The ultimate memeplex 18. Out of the meme race References
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CHAPTER 7 The origins of language W
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CHAPTER 9 The limits of sociobiolog
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CHAPTER 11 Sex in the modern world
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CHAPTER 13 The altruism trick In to
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CHAPTER 16 Into the Internet In our
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