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Are you calling Dawkins a gardener and 4chan scientists?
Isn’t rather “meme” the refinement from “gene” (seeing as it was chosen to rhyme with gene)
Sort of, but I’m not sure refinement is the right word. It is meant to allude to genes. Memes are to culture as genes are to biological evolution.
Imagine a putnam square of bucket walrus and cheezburger cat, and by some recessive trait magic you wind up with loss
syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Isn’t rather “meme” the refinement from “gene” (seeing as it was chosen to rhyme with gene)
SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sort of, but I’m not sure refinement is the right word. It is meant to allude to genes. Memes are to culture as genes are to biological evolution.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Imagine a putnam square of bucket walrus and cheezburger cat, and by some recessive trait magic you wind up with loss