• cholesterol@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      In Dawkins’ sense of the word, memes are ‘units of cultural inheritance’. So melodic movements in bird song, that birds teach each other, could be considered memes. Any other place you might find cultural inheritance, you could describe it in terms of memes. Memes were simply meant to be a cultural analogy to genes.