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Cultural Evolution

Cultural Evolution

Kate Distin

Expounds a theory of cultural evolution and shows how it can help us to understand the development of human culture.
The Extended Self: Architecture, Memes and Minds

The Extended Self: Architecture, Memes and Minds

Chris Abel

discussing building types.18 In addition, as with the dualistic interpretation of memes offered by Kate Distin and Robert Aunger, the first and most general of these terms, 'idea,' suffers from Platonic overtones of the immutable aspects of ...
The Poetry of Raymond Carver: Against the Current

The Poetry of Raymond Carver: Against the Current

Sandra Lee Kleppe

This study endorses the phenomenon that in “language,” as Kate Distin points out, “the possibilities of innovation due to recombination are much greater than they could ever be with DNA.”2 And Carver was a great innovator of poetry as well ...
Dawkins' God: From The Selfish Gene to The God Delusion

Dawkins' God: From The Selfish Gene to The God Delusion

Alister E. McGrath

The three core elements of evolutionary theory – selection, variation, and replication – can all be seen at work in cultural contexts. In her analysis of the concept of the meme, Kate Distin has shown how all three elements can be seen in the ...
What is a 21st Century Brand?: New Thinking from the Next ...

What is a 21st Century Brand?: New Thinking from the Next ...

Nick Kendall

Kate Distin, author of The Selfish Meme, believes that innovation in memes is due to two factors, recombination and mutation: 'in recombination, existing memes are appropriately recombined in new situations creating new ways of thought and ...
Morphological Analysis of Cultural DNA: Tools for Decoding ...

Morphological Analysis of Cultural DNA: Tools for Decoding ...

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In the book, Kate Distin introduces the concept of artefactual languages which are artifacts made by humans such as writings and musical notions. Her basic idea is that these languages help humans to receive and transmit cultural information ...
The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking our Way out of Extinction

The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking our Way out of Extinction

Rebecca D Costa

Kate Distin, The Selfish Meme: A Critical Reassessment (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Robert Aunger, Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memelics as Science (New York: 0xfon'l University Press, 2001). Stephen Sherman ...
Gifted Children: A Guide for Parents and Professionals

Gifted Children: A Guide for Parents and Professionals

Kate Distin

This excellent book, written by counsellors who are also parents with first- hand knowledge of living and working with gifted children, is an accessible and positive guide full of constructive advice and encouragement for other parents.
The Selfish Meme: A Critical Reassessment

The Selfish Meme: A Critical Reassessment

Kate Distin

Dawkins, Richard (1976) Hierarchical organisation: a candidate principle for ethology, in P. P. G. Bateson & R. A. Hinde, eds ( 1976) Growing points in ethology, Cambridge Universty Press, pp. 7-54. Dawkins, Richard (1978) Reply to Fix and ...
The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History ...

The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History ...

Jack Zipes

Kate Distin, Cultural Evolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 209. 42. Ibid., 224. 43. Ibid., 224–25. 44. See the Wikepedia entry “Fairies,” available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Disney_Fairies. The films, books, and games ...
Kate Bridges's Mounties: The Long Journey Home\The ...

Kate Bridges's Mounties: The Long Journey Home\The ...

Kate Bridges

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Kate Roberts

Kate Roberts

Kate Gramich

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 3 L. P. Nemo, Letter to Kate Roberts from Brest, Brittany, dated 30 December 1925, NLW Kate Roberts Papers 78. 4 Kate Roberts, 'Yr Athronydd', O Gors y Bryniau (1925; Caerdydd: Hughes a'i ...
Fox Populi:

Fox Populi:

Kate Fox

Kate Fox. Fox Populi £423.2%) S SN % *:: ~ SS [. - SS Fox Populi Fox Populi Kate FOX SQQ's s'ss BOOKS Published. poems by Kate Fox Copyright 2013, by Kate Fox, all rights reserved www.katefox.co.uk ...
Mother, Can You Not?

Mother, Can You Not?

Kate Friedman

Tick tock. Love, Mom' This was the text message Kate Friedman woke up to on the morning of her twenty-sixth birthday, but her mother's maternal adoration and helicopter parenting began while Kate was still in utero.
Mother, Can You Not?: And You Thought Your Mom was Nuts...

Mother, Can You Not?: And You Thought Your Mom was Nuts...

Kate Siegel

, Kate pays tribute to the woman whose helicopter parenting may make your mom look like Mother Teresa. If fans think Kate's mom's texts are insane, they will laugh out loud at the anecdotes her daughter shares in this collection.
Waiting for Kate Bush

Waiting for Kate Bush

John Mendelssohn

In Waiting for Kate Bush - an unusual hybrid of satirical novel and music biography - the reader will not only laugh aloud at Herskovits' attempt to make sense of his life in an alien culture, but also learn in detail what Kate Bush - known ...
Rainy day Kate

Rainy day Kate

Lenore Blegvad

A child's excited speculations on what fun can he had with Kate when she comes to play come to an end when a rainy day cancels Kate's visit, but the fun is not permanently spoiled.
Kate Hannigan: A Novel

Kate Hannigan: A Novel

Catherine Cookson

In Kate Hannigan, her very first novel, Catherine Cookson introduces us to the enduring story of her most charismatic heroine. The moment he lays eyes on Kate, Dr. Rodney Prince is enchanted.
Federal Correctional Institution, Northumberland County: ...

Federal Correctional Institution, Northumberland County: ...

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CHANDLER: Mary Kate Culkin followed by John Boback. MARY KATE CULKIN. Good evening. My name is Mary Kate Culkin, C—U—L—K—I—N. And I'm the Regional Director of Public Projects for the International Masonry Institute. IMI is the ...
Simplement Kate

Simplement Kate

Erin Bow

Simple Kate habite un monde de sorcellerie et de superstitions.
Capturing Kate

Capturing Kate

Marie Kelly

When Kate Pallen is invited to New York to meet with a father she has never known, she has no idea what lies in store for her.
Dr. Cinderella's Midnight Fling

Dr. Cinderella's Midnight Fling

Kate Hardy

Kate Hardy. Kate Hardy Dr. Cinderella's Midnight Fling Praise for Kate Hardy, who writes for both Harlequin® MedicalTM.
Cotillion Christmas Surprises

Cotillion Christmas Surprises

Kate Fox

Cotillion Christmas Surprises 'Tis the season for hope, joy, romance...and sweet Regency Surprises! The Last Surprise by Blair Bancroft Christmas Bequest by Barbara Miller Double Masquerade by Kate Fox Change of Address by Kate Dolan
Distilled Spirits: O'Hare House Mysteries Book Three

Distilled Spirits: O'Hare House Mysteries Book Three

Kate Danley

O'Hare House Mysteries Book Three Kate Danley. Did you like what you read? • Tell your friends! •Leave a nice review at your favorite online book retailer •Follow Kate on Twitter ...
Kate Gosselin's Love Is in the Mix: Making Meals into ...

Kate Gosselin's Love Is in the Mix: Making Meals into ...

Kate Gosselin

Kate Gosselin's Love Is in the Mix will help busy moms and dads put delicious meals on the table while making lasting memories.
Emile Zola and the Artistry of Adaptation

Emile Zola and the Artistry of Adaptation

Kate Griffiths

Kate Griffiths is a lecturer in French at Swansea University.
Melting Point

Melting Point

Kate Meader

Things are heating up at Engine Co. 6 in this original e-novella from Kate Meader’s sizzling Hot in Chicago series!
Late Fragments: Everything I Want to Tell You (about this ...

Late Fragments: Everything I Want to Tell You (about this ...

Kate Gross

Kate Gross was a woman who 'leaned in' until cancer stopped her in her tracks.
Turning Left to the Ladies

Turning Left to the Ladies

Kate Braid

In 1977 Kate Braid got her first job in construction as a labourer on a small island off the coast of British Columbia.
No Second Chances

No Second Chances

Kate Evangelista

Get ready to stop time, defy gravity and bring down the stars in this final book in Kate Evangelista's Dodge Cove Trilogy!

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