What is a “meme”?
•“a unit of cultural ideas, symbols or
practices, which can be transmitted from
one mind to another through writing,
speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable
phenomena” (Wikipedia)
•First coined by Richard Dawkins in his
book, The Selfish Gene when discussing
how ideas and cultural references are
themselves subject to a form of evolution
and natural selection
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