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Language: The Cultural Tool
by Daniel L. Everett
New York: Pantheon Books, 2012
A bold and provocative study that presents language not as an innate component of the brain — as most linguists do …

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On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves)
by Jonnie Hughes
New York: Free Press, 2011
Why do some ideas spread, while others die off? Does human culture have its very …

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The Meme Machine
by Susan Blackmore
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999
We humans are strange creatures. Our bodies evolved by natural selection, just as other animals’ did, yet we differ from all the other …

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Counter Culture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House
by Ken Goffman (a.k.a. R. U. Sirius) and Dan Joy
New York: Villard, 2004
As long as there has been culture, there has …

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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
by John McWhorter
New York: W. H. Freeman, 2001
There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendent of the tongue …

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The Tree of Culture
by Ralph Linton
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955
Ralph Linton’s last book presents his mature views on the nature of society and cultural change, and embodies the history …

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Man and His Works: The Science of Cultural Anthropology
by Melville J. Herskovits
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948
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New York: …

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The Nature of Knowledge: Concerning Adaptations, Instinct and the Evolution of Intelligence
by Henry Plotkin
London: Allen Lane, 1994
The study of knowledge has for over two thousand years been a province …

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Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science
by Robert Aunger, ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
The publication in 1998 of Susan Blackmore’s bestselling The Meme Machine re-awakened the debate over …

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Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology
by J. M. Balkin
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998
Cultural Software announces an important and original theory of cultural evolution. Bringing together the theory of memes …