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Inside Jokes by Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, Reginald B. Adams Jr.

By Science News

http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Jokes-Using-Humor-Reverse-Engineer/dp/026201582X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1307032679&sr=1-1 Humor isn’t just fun, these authors argue; it’s evolution’s mechanism for building a brain that handles open-ended thinking.

MIT Press, 2011, 359 p., $29.95.

A version of this article appears in the June 18, 2011 issue of Science News.

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