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The Meme Machine

by Susan Blackmore · 1999

Susan Blackmore's book developing memetics as a theory of cultural replication, with a foreword by Richard Dawkins.

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Susan Blackmore · Memetics researcher

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Susan BlackmoreMemetics researcher

Psychologist and author of The Meme Machine, a book for which Richard Dawkins wrote the foreword.

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The Meme Machine

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Susan Blackmore · Memetics researcher

Documented citation: Any theory deserves to be given its best shot, and that is what Susan Blackmore has given the theory of the meme.

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Wikipedia / book foreword reference · 1999; accessed 2026-06-21 · accessed 2026-06-21

Susan Blackmore's biography documents Dawkins' foreword to The Meme Machine and quotes his foreword praise for Blackmore giving meme theory its best shot.

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