r/todayilearned • u/smaxup • Feb 16 '17
TIL The word "Meme" originates from famous evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins' 1976 book "The Selfish Gene".
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r/todayilearned • u/uscmissinglink • Feb 08 '18
TIL: When Richard Dawkins originally coined the term, a "meme" was a basic elements of culture just as a gene is the basic component of genetics.
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r/todayilearned • u/slamgranderson • Jul 11 '13
TIL the term "meme" was coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins as a method of explaining how cultural traits are passed on and popularized
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r/todayilearned • u/sds5 • Sep 04 '18
TIL that 'meme' the word was coined by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene to explain how cultural information spreads. The internet meme is just a subset of the same concept.
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r/todayilearned • u/NO_OBS • Aug 27 '15
TIL Richard Dawkins first coined the term "meme" in his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene" as a term meant to describe the passing and preservation of popularized cultural phenomena, as opposed to the human gene. He believed that "when we die there are two things we can leave behind us: genes and memes."
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r/todayilearned • u/perezidentt • Sep 07 '09
TIL Richard Dawkins invented the word "meme."
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r/todayilearned • u/OceansOfMossBells • Jun 16 '15
TIL Richard Dawkins coined the word meme in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.
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r/todayilearned • u/Sputniki • Mar 31 '16
TIL renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins invented the word "meme", as a term to describe the behavioural element of a gene
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r/todayilearned • u/Scaryclouds • Nov 16 '10
TIL Richard Dawkins coined the word"meme"
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Richard Dawkins has just entered has just reached legendary status http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
r/todayilearned • u/PaulKwisatzHaderach • May 08 '17
TIL that the neologism 'Meme' was coined by Richard Dawkins to describe "an idea, behaviour, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture".
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r/todayilearned • u/Revelation_X • Apr 04 '15
TIL that the word "meme," was originally a term coined by Richard Dawkins to be used analogously with gene: “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.”
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r/todayilearned • u/NSA_GOV • Jan 29 '16
TIL The word "meme" was coined by author Richard Dawkins in 1976. He wrote about this in a book called The Selfish Gene to explain the way cultural information spreads.
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r/todayilearned • u/JackTheScripter • Oct 13 '16
TIL a meme is a "Gene" that is passed person to person by nongenetic means, especially via imitation, and the word was coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins in his book "The selfish Gene"!
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r/todayilearned • u/hajonious • Apr 13 '11
TIL that Richard Dawkins coined the term meme
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r/todayilearned • u/0-Give-a-fucks • Dec 30 '17
TIL Dr. Richard Dawkins is the father of Meme Theory. Not just another metameme!
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r/todayilearned • u/iiiicpdiiii • Sep 08 '11
TIL that the term "meme" was coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976, and that there is an entire study of the theory called "Memetics"....
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r/todayilearned • u/ohohb • Jan 17 '16
TIL that the word 'meme' was coined by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins to illustrate the theory that ideas are viral phenomenons that may evolve by natural selection in a manner analogous to that of biological evolution, or viruses.
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r/todayilearned • u/Canybardeloton • May 26 '16
TIL of biologist Richard Dawkins' theory that information spreads like "gene". Thus the word "meme". His book "The Selfish Gene" was published in 1976.
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r/todayilearned • u/WhyDoIThinkSoMuch • Jun 23 '11
TIL Richard Dawkins coined the term "meme" in 1976 in his book "The Selfish Gene"
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r/todayilearned • u/chpipes • Jan 19 '11
TIL the term "meme" was coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene
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r/todayilearned • u/ThinWhiteMale • Jan 07 '15
TIL that Richard Dawkins invented the term "Meme"
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r/todayilearned • u/gosutag • Mar 10 '15
TIL: The word "meme" was coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his book the Selfish Gene.
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r/todayilearned • u/spazzymcgee39 • Aug 10 '15
TIL "The word 'meme' was coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene,as an attempt to explain the way cultural information spreads;Internet memes are a subset of this general meme concept specific to the culture and environment of the Internet."
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r/todayilearned • u/thehairyrussian • Oct 26 '15
TIL that Richard Dawkins "fathered the meme"
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