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Meme
A unit of cultural inheritance, hypothesized as analagous to the particular gene, and as naturally selected by virtue of its "phenotypic"consequences on its own survival and replication in the cultural environment.
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Dawkins has been one of the major proponents of sociobiological theory and coined the term meme, which spawned the theory of memetics.
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Sociobiologists argue that many aspects of culture can best be understood through the concept of the meme, first introduced by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.
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