Dawkins said memes could also refer to cultural entities that could be considered replicating by observers. In 1993 it was used to refer to Internet memes by author Mike Godwin to explain the ways ...

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 ...

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Famed biologist Richard Dawkins resigned from the board ... Coyne also shared the full text of Dawkins’ resignation letter on his website. In it, the atheist addressed the foundation’s co ...

We need more of it. Richard Dawkins was born in Kenya in 1941, while his father had been stationed there, for the British. He studied at Oxford, and still lives there. His first book, The Selfish ...

By Tim Flannery Richard Dawkins is without doubt the most eminent evolutionary ... stating that “the bird with a large repertoire is pretending his territory is already occupied to the full”. This ...

In The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian reverie, his colleague Richard Dawkins describes this as a kind of palimpsest – “a manuscript in which later writing has been superimposed on ...