Meme
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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme. A meme
Richard Dawkins coined the word meme in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.
Album cover of Abbey Road (1969) by the Beatles, on which the band members cross the road in front of the Abbey Road Studios in a row
Imitating the cover of Abbey Road has become popular with fans and London visitors.
The four actresses of the Japanese media franchise Milky Holmes reenact the Beatles cover in 2010, extending the original Beatles meme by their film costumes.
The Selfish Gene
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The Selfish Gene is a 1976 popular science book by Richard Dawkins that espouses the gene-centred view of evolution. It builds upon the thesis of George Christopher Williams's Adaptation and Natural S
Meme
…result of a misunderstanding of the original proposal. The word meme itself is a neologism coined by Richard Dawkins, originating from his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. Dawkins's own position is somewhat ambiguous. He welcomed N. K. Humphrey's suggestion that "memes should be considered as living structures, not just…
Original cover, with detail from the painting The Expectant Valley by the zoologist Desmond Morris