Culture is a unique and fascinating aspect of the human species.
How did it emerge and how did it develop? Richard Dawkins has
suggested that culture evolves through meme - that is, cultural
replicators subject to variation and selection in just the same
ways that genes are in the biological world. In this sense human
culture is the product of a mindless evolutionary algorithm. Does
this imply, as some have argued, that we are meme machines and that
the conscious self is an illusion? Kate Distin's highly readable
and accessible book presents for the first time a fully developed
and workable concept of cultural DNA. She argues that culture
develops both through memetic evolution and human creativity, and
that mimetic evolution is perfectly compatible with the view of
humans as conscious and intelligent. This book should find a wide
readership amongst philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, and
will also interest many non-academic readers.
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