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2016-03-15 19:28:33 Post No. 7815637
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2016-03-15 19:28:33
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In his book The Selfish Gene, Dawkins coined the word meme (the behavioural equivalent of a gene) as a way to encourage readers to think about how Darwinian principles might be extended beyond the realm of genes. Dawkins's meme refers to any cultural entity that an observer might consider a replicator of a certain idea or set of ideas. Because memes are not always copied perfectly, they might become refined, combined, or otherwise modified with other ideas; this results in new memes, which may themselves prove more or less efficient replicators than their predecessors, thus providing a framework for a hypothesis of cultural evolution based on memes.
What does lit think about Dawkin's epic meme ? :^)
