Comment on Taxonomy
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.
syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
Isn’t rather “meme” the refinement from “gene” (seeing as it was chosen to rhyme with gene)
SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 2 hours 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.