Syria was poised for liberation. Instead, ethnic violence, sectarian dogma, and unchecked power are threatening to turn ...

When evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins coined the term meme in 1976, he defined it as a "unit of cultural information" that, like a gene, replicates and mutates. British physicist David ...

the term was coined in academia in 1972 by Richard Dawkins. Dawkins was a biologist whose most successful work was housed in his book, The Selfish Gene. In the book, Dawkins uses the term meme to ...