and the vocabulary grows
meme
/meem/ n. [coined by analogy with `gene', by RichardDawkins] An idea considered as a replicator, esp. with the connotation that memes parasitize people into propagating them much as viruses do... ...Use of the term connotes acceptance of the idea that in humans (and presumably other tool- and language-using sophonts) cultural evolution by selection of adaptive ideas has superseded biological evolution by selection of hereditary traits. Hackers find this idea congenial for tolerably obvious reasons.
Source: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=meme
/meem/ n. [coined by analogy with `gene', by RichardDawkins] An idea considered as a replicator, esp. with the connotation that memes parasitize people into propagating them much as viruses do... ...Use of the term connotes acceptance of the idea that in humans (and presumably other tool- and language-using sophonts) cultural evolution by selection of adaptive ideas has superseded biological evolution by selection of hereditary traits. Hackers find this idea congenial for tolerably obvious reasons.
Source: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=meme
posted by sueeeus at 7/28/2005 03:02:00 PM
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