From: I.Price@shu.ac.uk (Ilfryn PRICE)
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 10:06:15 -0000
Subject: Re: RE: Papers critical of memetics
Derek
>
>> 2a. What is the best example of a cultural phenomenon in which the meme
>> concept is necessary to explain it?
>Contagious suicide, I'd say (see Paul's article).
How do you reconcile suicide with Dawkins A rather than Dawkins B?
If
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