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In his book The Selfish Gene ( 1976 ), the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins used the term meme to describe a unit of human cultural transmission analogous to the gene, arguing that replication also happens in culture, albeit in a different sense.
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* The ESS was a major element used to analyze evolution in Richard Dawkins ' bestselling 1976 book The Selfish Gene.
The word meme originated with Richard Dawkins ' 1976 book The Selfish Gene.
Memetics is a theory of mental content based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution, originating from the popularization of Richard Dawkins ' 1976 book The Selfish Gene.
Lynch claimed to have conceived his theory totally independently of any contact with academics in the cultural evolutionary sphere, and apparently was not even aware of Dawkins ' The Selfish Gene until his book was very close to publication.
* The term memetics is first proposed by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene.
The Selfish Gene is a book on evolution by Richard Dawkins, published in 1976.
: Not to be confused with the book The Selfish Gene.
This idea was sketched briefly by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene and was explicitly exposed in two 1980 articles in Nature magazine.
He also presents arguments to refute certain criticisms made on his previous book, The Selfish Gene.
In 1976, in his book The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins suggested applying biological evolutionary theories to the spread of ideas.
The book is about Darwinian evolution and includes summaries of the topics covered in his earlier books, The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype and The Blind Watchmaker.
Richard Dawkins ' book, The Selfish Gene, has a chapter, " Nice guys finish first ", which attempts to explain the role of altruism and cooperation in evolution and how social animals not only cannot survive without such traits, but how evolution will create them.
" The three criticized sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and adaptationism, most prominently in the book Not in Our Genes ( 1984 ), laying out their opposition to Sociobiology ( E. O. Wilson, 1975 ), The Selfish Gene ( Richard Dawkins, 1976 ), and other works promoting an evolutionary explanation for human social behaviour.
Aspects of Williams ' book were popularised by Richard Dawkins ' in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.
The word meme was coined by Richard Dawkins for his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, although his concept refers to a much broader category of cultural information.
The term " mytheme " is analogous to, if not virtually the same in " signification " ( a favorite term of Roland Barthes, another famous structuralist ) as " meme ", a word coined by Richard Dawkins in his book, The Selfish Gene ( 1976 ).
The term has declined in popularity, and the older term meme ( coined by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene ( 1976 )) is now used in its stead almost universally ( even by Wilson in his later writings ).
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In his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins coined the term memes to describe informational units that can be transmitted culturally, analogous to genes.
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In 2005, Gene Weingarten from The Washington Post was sent a gift of a first edition Barnaby book as an incentive for Watterson's cooperation.
The realm of Mspellsheimr appears as ' Muspel ' in Gene Wolfe's book series, The Wizard Knight.
Moench continued for a long tenure, though the title did not again receive the same level of acclaim as the Gulacy period until Gene Day, who had previously been inking the book, took over penciling in # 100 ( 1981 ).
The alien character of Prot in the book trilogy by Gene Brewer and played by Kevin Spacey in the movie K-PAX, like Proteus was said to embody, was a modernized " shape shifter " and magical type of advanced mystical ET who " walked in " to humanoid bodies, and shared wisdom and insights into the human condition.
In the foreword to the book's 30th-anniversary edition, Dawkins said he " can readily see that book's title might give an inadequate impression of its contents " and in retrospect thinks he should have taken Tom Maschler's advice and called the book The Immortal Gene.
The earliest reference to Vulcan names following a set pattern dates back to a May 3, 1966 memo from TOS producer Robert H. Justman to Gene Roddenberry ( later reprinted in the book The Making of Star Trek ) in which Justman recommended that all Vulcan names begin with " SP " and end with " K ", and have exactly five letters.
The barter of labors of love is confirmed by Gene Roddenberry himself, who said the following during his interview in Yvonne Fern's book, The Last Conversation: " Money is a terrible thing.
The book was first made into a feature film as a musical titled Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, directed by Mel Stuart, produced by David L. Wolper and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, character actor Jack Albertson as Grandpa Joe, and Peter Ostrum as Charlie Bucket.
The series and book were partially inspired by Gene Wolfe's novel Free Live Free
The book was twice adapted into film, first in 1946 starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney, and Herbert Marshall as Maugham, and then a 1984 adaptation starring Bill Murray.
Brock ( an old story book illustrator ), Gene Ahern ’ s comic strips, George Baker ( Sad Sack ), Isadore Freleng's drawings for the early Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes of the 1930s, Sidney Smith ( The Gumps ), Rube Goldberg, E. C.
However, according to the book " Murder Machine " by Gene Mustain and Jerry Capeci, Castellano got offended when he thought that a police officer had implied that he was less than a gentleman.
The book Expanded Cinema, by Gene Youngblood, marked a shift in the use of media by performance artists.
For example Gene Weingarten in his book I'm with Stupid ( 2004 ) writes that " Ruskin had marriage annulled because he was horrified to behold upon his bride a thatch of hair, rough and wild, similar to a man's.
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In 1976, Watergate conspirator Chuck Colson's book Born Again gained international notice.
In his book Born Again ( 1976 and 2008 ), Watergate conspirator Chuck Colson describes his path to faith in conjunction with his criminal imprisonment and played a significant role in solidifying the " born again " identity as a cultural construct in the US.
It was originally serialized in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1976, and was the last Dune novel to be serialized before book publication.
He also revived the Pertwillaby Papers in this " RBCC " fanzine a comic book style story rather than a newspaper comic strip from 1976 to 1978.
Ernest Howard Shepard ( 10 December 1879 – 24 March 1976 ) was an English artist and book illustrator.
Primary drafts of the book were completed by 1970, but Hayek chose to rework his drafts and finally brought the book to publication in three volumes in 1973, 1976 and 1979.
In fact, Idol had been a member of the punk band Generation X from 1976 – 1981, which was named after Deverson and Hamblett's 1965 sociology book Generation X — a copy of which was owned by Idol's mother.
This " Disneyfied " image of the gnome was built upon by the illustrated children's book classic The Secret Book of Gnomes ( 1976 ), in the original Dutch Leven en werken van de Kabouter.
In his 1976 book Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, Raymond Williams states in the entry for " Industry ": " The idea of a new social order based on major industrial change was clear in Southey and Owen, between 1811 and 1818, and was implicit as early as Blake in the early 1790s and Wordsworth at the turn of the century.
Julian Jaynes ( February 27, 1920 – November 21, 1997 ) was an American psychologist, best known for his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind ( 1976 ), in which he argued that ancient peoples were not conscious.
* In Issue # 3 ( January 1976, shortly after Monty Python began being broadcast in the U. S .) of the comic book title Batman Family the joint exploits of Batgirl ( Barbara Gordon ) and Robin ( Dick Grayson ) the story " Isle of a Thousand Thrills " borrowed the scenario of a land where anything anybody thinks of is quickly brought to life.
By 1976, however, he had sorted out the international travel problems, and went to Gabon instead, inspired by the book Trader Horn.
A book was published called Cracker Hill Crumbs in 1976.
Niklaus Wirth specified a simple p-code machine in the 1976 book Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs.
Francis A. Schaeffer, an American theologian based in Switzerland, seizing upon the exclusion of the divine from most humanist writings, argued that rampant secular humanism would lead to moral relativism and ethical bankruptcy in his book How Should We Then Live: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture ( 1976 ).
Pacific Overtures ( 1976 ) had music and lyrics by Sondheim and a book by John Weidman.
* Pacific Overtures ( 1976 ) ( book by John Weidman ; directed by Hal Prince )
In 1976 Sondheim appeared, together with theatre critic Frank Rich, John Weidman ( book for Pacific Overtures ) and members of the original cast of Pacific Overtures in a television program titled " Anatomy of a Song.
In 1974 the highly influential book Sybil was published, and later made into a miniseries in 1976 and again in 2007.
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