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individuals (3). Part of this claim is, of course, not new; and Pagel acknowledges
Richard Dawkins and his notion of the meme. Other books that have approached this
subject of culture and evolution include (to name a few): Cultural Transmission and
Evolution by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza and Marcus W. Feldman (1981), Culture and
the Evolutionary Process by Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson (1985), Coevolution:
Genes, Culture, and Human Diversity by William H. Durham (1991), The Evolution
of Culture by Robin Dunbar and Chris Knight (1999), and Not by Genes Alone: How
Culture Transformed Hu