As defined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976): "a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation." "Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation. ...
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Holly is GORGEOUS! is she still singing? It is so great to see the pics!
She sings all the time, often instead of speech!! Nothing professional or performance wise though. One day.
well, she's lovely! If her voice is as lovely as she is . . . wow!
meme: http://www.google.com/search?q=definition+meme&sourceid=firefox&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
As defined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976): "a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation." "Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation. ...
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