@book {1618,
	title = {Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science},
	year = {2000},
	pages = {242},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	organization = {Oxford University Press},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {<p>The publication in 1998 of Susan Blackmore{\textquoteright}s bestselling {\textquoteright}The Meme Machine{\textquoteright} re-awakened the debate over the highly controversial field of memetics. In the past few years, there has been an explosion of interest in {\textquoteright}memes{\textquoteright}. The one thing noticeably missing has been any kind of proper debate over the validity of a concept regarded by many as scientifically suspect.This book pits leading intellectuals, (both supporters and opponents of meme theory), against each other to battle it out, and state their case. With a forward by Daniel Dennett, and contributions form Dan Sperber, David Hll, Robert Boyd, Susan Blackmore, Henry Plotkin, and others, the result is a thrilling and challenging debate that will perhaps mark a turning point for the field, and for future research. Superbly edited by Robert Aunger, this is a thought provoking book that will fascinate, stimulate, (and occasionally perhaps infuriate) a broad range of readers including psychologists, biologists, philosophers, linguists, and anthropologists. Foreword by Daniel Dennett.</p>

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},
	keywords = {Memetics., Social perception},
	isbn = {0192632442},
	url = {http://lccn.loc.gov/00055729},
	author = {Aunger, Robert}
}
