Introduction: The Importance of Imitation -- I Imitation and Human Development -- 1 Imitation and Other Minds: The ''Like Me'' Hypothesis -- 2 Imitation, Mind Reading, and Simulation -- 3 Intentional Agents Like Myself -- 4 No Compelling Evidence to Dispute Piaget's Timetable of the Development of Representational Imitation in Infancy -- 5 Intention Reading and Imitative Learning -- 6 On Learning What Not to Do: The Emergence of Selective Imitation in Tool Use by Young Children -- 7 Imitation as Entrainment: Brain Mechanisms and Social Consequences -- 8 Commentary and Discussion on Imitation and Human Development -- II Imitation and Culture -- 9 Why We Are Social Animals: The High Road to Imitation as Social Glue -- 10 Deceptive Mimicry in Humans -- 11 What Effects Does the Treatment of Violence in the Mass Media Have on People's Conduct? A Controversy Reconsidered -- 12 Imitation and the Effects of Observing Media Violence on Behavior -- 13 Imitation and Moral Development -- 14 Imitation and Mimesis -- 15 Imitation and Rationality -- 16 Common Misunderstandings of Memes (and Genes): The Promise and the Limits of the Genetic Analogy to Cultural Transmission Processes -- 17 Goals versus Memes: Explanation in the Theory of Cultural Evolution -- 18 Mendelian and Darwinian Views of Memes and Cultural Change -- 19 Commentary and Discussion on Imitation and Culture -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index to Volume 1 -- Index to Volume 2.