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RICHARD DAWKINS - The Selfish Gene & The God Delusion: Understanding Nature, Humanity & Consciousness

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Is the Meme Helping Explain Religion?

A religion is a collection of memes that cooperate over time. Maybe it started as one is a superstition or one to explain this. And so it's interesting that your concept of the meme helps explain religion, which kind of lies in the face of evolution. It's evolved by mimetic selection as opposed to genetic selection.

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