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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...