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The word meme originated with Richard Dawkins' 1976 book The Selfish Gene. Dawkins cites as inspiration the work of geneticist L. L. Cavalli-Sforza, anthropologist F. T. Cloak, [26] [27] and ethologist J. M. Cullen. [28]
The meme first appeared in Richard Dawkins’ first book, “The Selfish Gene” (1976), and was an attempt to understand why some behaviours, from an evolutionary perspective, seemed to make no sense but, somehow or other, were found to be very common in human societies.
Within the piece, Dawkins explains how an "internet meme" is a hijacking of the original idea and that instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, they...
In his book The Selfish Gene (1976), the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins used the term meme to describe a unit of human cultural transmission analogous to the gene, arguing that replication also happens in culture, albeit in a different sense.
Talking to the Guy Who Invented the Word ‘Meme’: Richard Dawkins. By Mahmood Fazal. May 8, 2018, 8:13pm. In his 1979 book, The Selfish Gene, Professor Richard Dawkins gave us a cultural theory of...
The definition comes from evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins' 1976 book "The Selfish Gene" and it has become a part of internet culture orthodoxy. But to Dawkins, who was writing before the internet was even invented, a meme is any unit of cultural transmission.
meme, unit of cultural information spread by imitation. The term meme (from the Greek mimema, meaning “imitated”) was introduced in 1976 by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his work The Selfish Gene.