Susan Blackmore - The idea of memes (19/23)
584 views · Published 7 July 2017 · 2:08 · Indexed 22 October 2026
Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2017 · Sports
To listen to more of Susan Blackmore’s stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzEmqR8Hi9ZSwsu7fmSJc0Q Born in 1951, Susan Blackmore is a British freelance writer, lecturer and broadcaster. Having graduated from St Hilda's College, Oxford with a degree in psychology and physiology, she went on to do postgraduate work in environmental psychology. In 1980, she gained a PhD in parapsychology. Her research on memes (which she wrote about in her popular book The Meme Machine) and evolutionary theory has contributed to the field of memetics. [Listener: Christopher Sykes; date recorded: 2000]
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