Feathers Quote by Susan Blackmore

For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed.

— Susan Blackmore

Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be…

— Susan Blackmore

One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's…

— Susan Blackmore

You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really creative people…

— Susan Blackmore

Take male strategies for success in the world. If you've got all the advantages, if you're attractive and clever and all of that, you…

— Susan Blackmore

The sale of sex in modern societies is not about spreading genes. Sex has been taken over by the memes.

— Susan Blackmore

In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous…

— Susan Blackmore

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.

— Susan Blackmore

If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live…

— Susan Blackmore

Finally, we might decide that civilisation itself is worth preserving. In that case we have to work out what to save and which people…

— Susan Blackmore

Imagine a world full of brains, and far more memes than can possibly find homes. Which memes are more likely to find a safe…

— Susan Blackmore

All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines…

— Susan Blackmore