Approach Quote by Susan Blackmore

“If we take memetics seriously then the 'me' that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct: a fluid and ever-changing group of…

— Susan J. Blackmore

In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

“evolution  only happens by learning new skills, developing these skills and qualities, and then embodying them.”

— Martin Faulks

You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened in evolution.…

— Noam Chomsky

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

— Ernst Mayr

“Evolution itself embodies an ongoing exchange of information between organism and environment .... The gene has its cultural analog, too: the meme. In cultural…

— James Gleick

A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.

— Anonymous

Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process

— Gerald Edelman

I did not say that language as a completed system emerged in an individual in an instant. But I cannot think of a coherent…

— Noam Chomsky

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

I don't think language could have evolved if it was the only distinctive trait. It goes hand in hand with our ability to develop…

— Steven Pinker

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.

— Julian Huxley