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Alastair Clarke is an evolutionary theorist and science writer.
He can be contacted at humour@pyrrhichouse.co.uk
| Pattern Recognition Theory is the first analytically justifiable explanation of any instance of humour, presented in terms of its mechanism as a process of cognition and its function as a perceptual and analytical accelerator. The Complete Edition presents the comprehensive academic argument of the theory. A more popular summary by Clarke, including analysed illustrations of humour in social interactions and culture, will be published in early 2009 as Humour. More information on The Pattern Recognition Theory of Humour |
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