Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes … - Richard Dawkins

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Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation.

Richard Dawkins

The Selfish Gene · 2006 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist and author. He is known for his advocacy of atheism.

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