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1、ThispageintentionallyleftblankTheSelfishMemeACriticalReassessmentCultureisauniqueandfascinatingaspectofthehumanspecies.Howdiditemergeandhowdoesitdevelop?RichardDawkinshassuggestedthatcultureevolvesandthatmemesaretheculturalrepli-cators,subjecttovariationandselectionin

2、justthesamewayasgenesareinthebiologicalworld.Inthissensehumancultureistheproductofamindlessevolutionaryalgorithm.Doesthisimply,assomehaveargued,thatwearemeremememachinesandthattheconsciousselfisanillusion?KateDistin’shighlyreadableandaccessiblebookextendsandstrengthe

3、nsDawkins’stheoryandpresentsforthefirsttimeafullydevelopedandworkableconceptofculturalDNA.Shearguesthatculture’sdevelopmentcanbeseenbothastheresultofmemeticevo-lutionandastheproductofhumancreativity.Memeticevolutionisperfectlycompatiblewiththeviewofhumansasconsciousan

4、dintelligent.Thisbookshouldfindawidereadershipamongstphilosophers,psychologistsandsociologists,anditwillalsointerestmanynonaca-demicreaders.KateDistinisanindependentscholar.TheSelfishMemeACriticalReassessmentKATEDISTINCambridge,NewYork,Melbourne

5、,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,SãoPauloCambridgeUniversityPressTheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridge,UKPublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYorkwww.cambridge.orgInformationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521844529©KateDistin2005Thisbookisinco

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8、inthisbook,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate.Contents1Introductionpage12TheMemeH