• DocumentCode
    1280028
  • Title

    The selfish meme

  • Author

    McFedries, Paul

  • Volume
    48
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    8/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    28
  • Lastpage
    28
  • Abstract
    At the end of his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, geneticist Richard Dawkins proposed the idea of the meme, which he described as "a unit of cultural transmission" analogous to the gene. The meme idea was so powerful that it quickly became a meme itself as it spread from mind to mind with the peculiar inevitability that seems to characterize all memes.
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Spectrum, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9235
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSPEC.2011.5960161
  • Filename
    5960161
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1280028