Wed, 22 Jun 2022 09:13:48 GMT 2022-06-22T09:13:48Z <span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">The term&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: sans-serif;" title="Meme" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme">meme</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">&nbsp;was coined in&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: sans-serif;" title="Richard Dawkins" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins">Richard Dawkins</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">' 1976 book&nbsp;</span><em style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="The Selfish Gene" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene">The Selfish Gene</a>,</em><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">&nbsp;but Dawkins later distanced himself from the resulting field of study.&nbsp;</span><sup id="cite_ref-misunderstanding_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;"></sup><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">Analogous to a&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-family: sans-serif;" title="Gene" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene">gene</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif;">, the meme was conceived as a "unit of culture" (an idea, belief, pattern of behaviour, etc.) which is "<strong>hosted</strong>" in the minds of one or more individuals, and which can<strong> reproduce itself in the sense of jumping from the mind of one person to the mind of another</strong>. Thus what would otherwise be regarded as one individual influencing another to adopt a belief is seen as an<strong> idea-replicator reproducing itself in a new host</strong>.<br /><br /></span>(Source:&nbsp;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics ) Info