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Popular-Science Book
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From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
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- In his inimitable style―laced with wit and arresting thought experiments―Dennett explains that a crucial shift occurred when humans developed the ability to share memes, or ways of doing things not based in genetic instinct. Language, itself composed of memes, turbocharged this interplay. Competition among memes―a form of natural selection―produced thinking tools so well-designed that they gave us the power to design our own memes. The result, a mind that not only perceives and controls but can create and comprehend, was thus largely shaped by the process of cultural evolution.
An agenda-setting book for a new generation of philosophers, scientists, and thinkers, From Bacteria to Bach and Back will delight and entertain anyone eager to make sense of how the mind works and how it came about 4 color, 18 black-and-white illustrations
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- Dennett, Daniel
- Topics
- Evolution, Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Social Change
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- http://amzn.to/2nQMgfj
