• aulin@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    But whether we called them memes or not, by definition they were. The Selfish Gene came out in 1976, where Dawkins coined it as “a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation”.

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      Memes live in our head and propagate throughout society which is just an emergent phenomena of memes…I loved the selfish gene it’s a great book and Dawkins is the man.