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Is Religion a Meme?
"There are about three possible ways that religion could have evolved," says evolutionary biologist. "A meme is a unit of information that is not stored in the genome, but evolves outside of it." Dawkins was wrong to say memes were like new kind of life, he adds. 'To speak of things that are genetic or mimetic makes a great deal of sense'