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What produces mental illness: genes, environment, both,neither? The answer can be found in memes—replicable units of information linking genes and environment
The Selfish Gene
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Science need not be dull and bogged down by jargon, as Richard Dawkins proves in this entertaining look at evolution. The themes he takes up are the concepts of
The Meme Machine
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Humans are extraordinary creatures, with the unique ability among animals to imitate and so copy from one another ideas, habits, skills, behaviours, inventions,
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Contagious Metaphor
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The metaphor of contagion pervades critical discourse across the humanities, the medical sciences, and the social sciences. It appears in such terms as 'social