Viral content didn’t exist when Richard Dawkins coined the term “meme” in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene. And although he generally approves of the way the word has been used on the internet, when ...
Richard Dawkins has reflected on coining the term “meme”. The word was first shared by the scientist in his 1972 bestselling book The Selfish Gene, where it referred to the self-replication of genes ...
The end of the track and field season saw 17 current or former Ducks head to Tokyo for the 2025 World Athletics Championships. There, Oregon... It is undeniable that the Internet has changed the way ...
In 1979, British biologist Richard Dawkins coined the term meme which was short for memetic. He defined it as cultural information spread through imitation. The word stems from the Greek mimema, ...
Richard Dawkins, champion of Darwinism and scourge of religion, is a courtly and attractive man, although not much given to humor. If one finds oneself smiling frequently in the presence of this ...
Richard Dawkins is not your garden-variety Internet troll. He’s a retired professor at Oxford University and the author of a number of well-received, best-selling books on science and atheism. His ...