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minus-squarewanderer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 months ago I guess memes adapt to their environmental pressures That should not be in any way surprising. The word was coined by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.
That should not be in any way surprising.