Richard Dawkins has reflected on coining the term “meme”.. The word was first shared by the scientist in his 1972 bestselling book The Selfish Gene, where it referred to the self-replication ...

One man’s assault is another man’s meme: The Internet’s new political cartoons Richard Spencer, chairman of the National Policy Institute, a prominent alt-right organization, poses for a ...

Delving into meme history might help with figuring out what may have come first. ... It is a scientific concept, first coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in the 1970s.

Viral content didn’t exist when Richard Dawkins coined the term “meme” in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene. And although he generally approves of the way the word has been used on the ...

Believe it or not, memes have been around much longer than Instagram. An anthropological concept coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, memes ...

Although it’s difficult to identify the first meme ever, the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins is credited with introducing the term in his 1976 book, “The Selfish Gene.” ...