Memes are so commonly shared that, according to Google Trends, “memes” are becoming a more popular search term than "Jesus." The word “meme” was coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976.

Richard Dawkins has reflected on coining the term “meme”.. The word was first shared by the scientist in his 1972 bestselling book The Selfish Gene, where it referred to the self-replication ...

Search. Sign In. Sign In. Angela Watercutter. Culture. Apr 29, 2020 4:37 PM. ... Put another way, the machine doesn’t generate each meme word by word but character by character.

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins talks to Wired.co.uk about the internet's hijacking of the word "meme", Twitter, molecular genetics, false memories and, er, Celebrity Big Brother ...

ROFLcon 2012: ...you know, Rolling On the Floor Laughing....Duh:The Meme Generation, Matt Labash, The Weekly Standard I have always detested the word meme, and not just because it was coined by ...

Richard Dawkins has reflected on coining the term “meme”.. The word was first shared by the scientist in his 1972 bestselling book The Selfish Gene, where it referred to the self-replication ...