The term “meme” was first coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene; it is a shortening of the Greek word mimeme, which means “imitated thing”.

Image credits: Gregory Image credits: Dawn Hooten Image credits: bugposting At this point, most of us are familiar with what the word 'meme' means. In 1976, Richard Dawkins called it "ideas that ...

Evolutionary biologist and "The Selfish Gene" author Richard Dawkins speaks about his concept that the replicator at the base of Darwinian selection doesn't have to be DNA.

The word was first coined by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. Dawkins describes memes as “ideas that spread from brain to brain.” 2. Why is the ...

Richard Dawkins is Professor of the Public Understanding ... I have talked about religion as a virus, which is survival value at the level of the meme rather than the gene, the meme being the ...

Long before the days of Internet memes like Grumpy Cat, an evolutionary biologist named Richard Dawkins coined the term meme ...

But the idea of what meme means first emerged before the Internet itself. In his bestselling book “The Selfish Gene,” evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins coined the term to convey the idea ...

For nearly five decades, Richard Dawkins has enjoyed a global fame rarely ... it also coined the word meme. In 2006’s The God Delusion, another mega–best seller, Dawkins antagonized the ...

The meme coin Dawkoins (CRYPTO: DAW), named after renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, has witnessed its trading volume double following a recent price dip from its all-time high.