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Science 9 July 1999:
Vol. 285. no. 5425, p. 206
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5425.206
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EVOLUTION:
Flying Over Uncharted Territory

A review by David Sloan Wilson

The Meme Machine
Susan Blackmore
Oxford University Press, New York, 1999. 286 pp. $25, £18.99. ISBN 0-19-850365-2.

Psychologist Susan Blackmore attempts to develop Richard Dawkins's concept of memes into a full-fledged theory of cultural evolution.
The author is in the Department of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York 13902-6000, USA. E-mail: dwilson{at}binghamton.edu

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