An agnostic view of memes

Social Information Transmission and Human Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 89-96

  Aunger, Robert ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

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