Memes didn’t begin with the Web, but you’d be forgiven for thinking so. The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins coined the term in his 1976 book, “The Selfish Gene,” to describe ...

The biggest reason to reject memes as an analog of genes is that the processes of generation, selection, and transmission are so different. Genetics makes an enormous contribution to evolutionary ...

A government media adviser has been called out in question time for sharing a meme joking about Covid-19 ... but the premier admits he’s not sure what a meme is. In question time on Thursday ...

Genes rely on their hosts for transmission, and memes are no exception: in creating the internet it turns out that we have developed the ultimate meme hothouse.

The word “meme” was first coined in 1976, external by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene, where he described them as a “unit of cultural transmission ...

A government media adviser has been called out in question time for sharing a meme joking about Covid-19 ... but the premier admits he’s not sure what a meme is. In question time on Thursday ...