
Why Ideas Spread Like Viruses
The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins
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Genes, Cooperative Genomes and the Meme Idea
Dawkins develops the cooperative-gene view, offers a poetic metaphor of genomes as cooperatives (including longitudinally transmitted 'viruses'), and reflects on coining 'meme' and cultural replication, memeplexes and internet memes.
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