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You could try my book review of it at Amazon.
Diana Stevenson wrote:
> Recently Richard Brodie wrote:
>
> <<Beyond that, imitation is only a small part of memetics, one that
> Blackmore
> focuses on and has been criticized for. I think many of the interesting ways
> memes spread cannot be classified as imitation, but rather teaching and
> learning or even unwitting conditioning.>
>
> Does anyone on the list know of any published criticism of Blackmore's focus
> on imitation only, or any idea of where in the list archives I can find this
> discussion? It would be useful for me to have some sources for this.
>
> Diana
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