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Re:Why books don't work (2019) by mongol on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @11:54AM (#24555997)
Agreed. Was it not The Selfish Gene that coined "meme"? Or was that word used before by Dawkins in research papers or similar?
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Re:Why books don't work (2019) by liability on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @01:34PM (#24557438)
'Meme' came about when Dawkins modified the word 'mimeme' to sound like 'gene'. AFAIK that was first done in that book.
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