The Meme

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"what is a meme? A meme is the original term, not an abbreviation, pronounced meem, similar to gene, since both have the same basic idea of replicating themselves, and you will see why and how shortly. Now, according to Richard Dawkins, "Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperm or …

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…the one who coined the term meme, and who started the whole "meme" but that was twenty four years ago, that alone is proof of memes. He has written many articles about the meme himself. But what was important that His theory of the MEME, was able to propagate itself into many a scientists mind who took it into deeper research and exploration. memes like genes, go through evolution, but the bases remain the same!