Joan Liu About Me Page at Helium

My passion is ...

writing and drawing.

I know too much about ...

microbiology and japanese anime/manga.

My parents always told me ...

make sure I never got left behind

My childhood ambition ...

to be remembered.

My inspiration ...

life itself.

Religion & Spirituality > Atheism & Agnosticism Explanation of the concept of the Meme: 2 of 6

In The God Delusion, Dawkins mentions memes briefly as a means to explain the origins of religion. The word “meme” was first coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 publication The Selfish Gene. He defines them as “units of cultural transmission analogous to the gene” (Blackmore 2). He further explains that natural selection proceeds in the interest of the genes and not the organism. It is not organisms that compete to survive, but rather the genes compete to be duplicated. The most successful replicators are those that band to create devices or vehicles that carry ou...
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