So that's what "meme" means...

May 03, 2004 10:41

I've just seen in an article I was reading that the word "meme" was coined by Richard Dawkins (a Darwinian biologist) to describe self replicating cultural elements.

I'm not really sure if anybody else cares, but I thought it was quite interesting. I didn't actually find it interesting enough to have gone out and looked at the Wiki page on my own ( Read more... )

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pim2005 May 3 2004, 09:39:05 UTC
Interesting, and I now know that I have been pronouncing 'meme' wrong all along...

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broken_ivor May 3 2004, 13:55:02 UTC
You really do have far too much time on your hands.

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