Richard Dawkins reflects on inventing the word ‘meme’ - Author invented the term ‘meme’, which was first brought to public ...

An evolutionary biologist blended the ancient Greek word mimeme—meaning something imitated—with ... lead to a comparison to Hitler and the Holocaust. In the op-ed, titled ‘Meme, Counter-Meme,’ Godwin ...

How do all of these different people refer to their memes? I asked SwiftKey, a popular smartphone keyboard app acquired by Microsoft a couple years ago, for data on English words commonly used by ...

Along with memes comes memetics. The word now is defined as "the study of memes" but memetics describes how ideas reproduce, change and evolve. Dawkins used "meme" to represent any piece of ...

It wasn't long ago that the word "meme" was something you wouldn't utter in polite company — not because it was rude, but because no one knew it meant. The word was consigned to teenage boys ...

Even if you’re not extremely online, you’ve probably participated in a meme trend, knowingly or not. The word “meme” has been used in the New York Times Crossword 60 times since the puzzle ...

Some of them stick for a while, some don’t. Those that linger are branded as memes. But what exactly is a meme? In 1976, English evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins proposed an idea in his ...

But believe it or not, memes aren’t a recent cultural phenomenon. In fact, the word “meme” itself is rooted in Greek, meaning “that which is imitated.” And imitated they are. Memes are ...

The word meme was coined by the biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, in which he suggested that ideas could replicate, evolve, and enter popular culture in a process ...

"Professor Dawkins' speech transmutes into an auto-tuned song about internet memes..." is not a sentence you expect to read in a press release about the evolutionary biologist. However, it's ...