"The term meme (from the Greek mimema, meaning “imitated”) was introduced in 1976 by British
evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his work The Selfish Gene.
Dawkins conceived of memes as the cultural parallel to biological genes and considered them, in a manner similar to “selfish” genes, as being in control of their own reproduction and thus serving their own ends. Understood in those terms, memes carry information, are replicated, and are transmitted from one person to another, and they have the ability to evolve, mutating at random and undergoing natural selection, with or without impacts on human fitness (reproduction and survival)."
Encyclopedia Britannica
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