Even compared with genes, memes are hard to mathematize or even to define rigorously. So the gene-meme analogy causes uneasiness and the genetics-memetics analogy even more. Genes at least have a ...

Remember Pepe the Frog? Or the blinking guy meme? Or the French Revolution Meme? Well, how did everything start and how exactly did they become funny? These memes all originally started as ideas that ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Though history will probably remember Richard Dawkins as the activist who spearheaded a new atheist movement, there is something far more famous and ...

With the rise of information theory, ideas were seen as behaving like organisms, replicating by leaping from brain to brain, interacting to form new ideas and evolving in what the scientist Roger ...