Memes spread through the behaviors that they generate in their hosts.

Memes that propagate less prolifically may become extinct, while others may survive, spread and ( for better or for worse ) mutate.

Memes, analogously to genes, vary in their aptitude to replicate ; memes that are good at getting themselves copied tend to spread and remain, whereas the less good ones have a higher probability of being ignored and forgotten.

Memes spread in cognitive transmission do not count as self-replicating.

* Memes ( by influencing behavior to favor their own spread ; see religion as a meme )

Memes that fit within a successful memeplex may gain acceptance by " piggybacking " on the success of the memeplex.

* Dawkins ' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life, book by Alister McGrath

In the 2010s, the Organization abandoned Joshua, who then joined the Reconstruction after the Eurowar and worked in Quito, Ecuador on the GeoSync Cable and saw with Alice the beginning of the development of memes that would unify all countries and religions, leading to the War of the Memes ( referred to in some of Barnes ' other books ) that culminated in the takeover of Earth by One True.

From Sadi, whom Joshua had met as a woman after the Eurowar and was partnered with when Sadi was male during the War of the Memes, Joshua learns that it's possible to go through the singularity to 1988, when the technology to construct it was first built and put into orbit by the Soviets.

* " It's All About You ( album )", an album by Rebecca F & The Memes

“ Memes stay in memory and they are affected by marketers ”.

* " Evolution and Memes: The human brain as a selective imitation device ": article by Susan Blackmore.

Memes play a comparable role in understanding the evolution of imitated behaviors.

Memes that replicate most effectively enjoy more success, and some may replicate effectively even when they prove to be detrimental to the welfare of their hosts.

Memes, in this sense, are a philosophical method ; they aren't a scientific object.

Memes do this through the processes of variation, mutation, competition and inheritance, each of which influence a meme's reproductive success.

Memes generally replicate through exposure to humans, who have evolved as efficient copiers of information and behaviour.

Memes can replicate vertically or horizontally within a single biological generation.

Memes require only small amounts of material, and therefore have theoretical similarities to viruses and are often described as viral.

Richard Dawkins notes ( in Blackmore 2000: The Meme machine, page 13 ), that Memes can be copied in a Lamarckian way ( copying of the product ) or in a Weismann-type evolutionary way ( copying of the instruction ) which is much more resistant against changes.

According to Beck and Cowan, these conceptual models are organized around so-called < sup > v </ sup > Memes: systems of core values or collective intelligences, applicable to both individuals and entire cultures.

However, Spiral Dynamics does explicitly define a category of people labeled " Spiral Wizards " who have attained equilibrium around " higher level " Memes.

Memes are possibly the best example of viral patterns.

* Josephson, B. D., 1993: " All in the Memes ", New Statesman & Society, 6, 28-29.

The company's website, Cracked. com, continued on and has become known for its humorous lists and compilations, for example, " The 9 Most Obnoxious Memes to Ever Escape the Web ", " 6 Bizarre Forms of Discrimination That Can Lose You a Job " A book collection in that vein, You Might be a Zombie, and Other Bad News, was published in 2010.

* Kneis, Philipp The Emancipation of the Soul: Memes of Destiny in American Mythological Television Peter Lang.

Alice runs away, and the Organization finds and rehires Joshua to fight in the War of the Memes, for One True.

Not by the 11:00 sun which had spread a warmth around his spot of grass in the English Gardens and sent him off to sleep ; ;

It spread to most of the audience and was often viewed by visiting whites who snickered behind handkerchief and afterward discussed Negro religion.

The push-up itself can be taught by starting at the top of the push-up with legs spread wide.

The big spread is in the charge for each kilometer driven, being governed by the rate at which gasoline is consumed.

The infamous Wansee Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942, to organize the material and technical means to put to death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe, was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state, including the Reich Minister of the Interior, the State Secretary in charge of the Four Year Plan, the Reich Minister of Justice, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Kennedy was less troubled by that possibility than by the belief that a Geneva breakdown, or even continued stalemate, would mean an unchecked spread of nuclear weapons to other countries as well as a fatal blow to any hope for disarmament.

This was particularly the case with Radcliffe-Brown, who spread his agenda for " Social Anthropology " by teaching at universities across the British Commonwealth.

The script was spread by the Phoenicians, across the Mediterranean.

By contrast, the cursive developed out of the Nabataean alphabet in the same period soon became the standard for writing Arabic, evolving into the Arabic alphabet as it stood by the time of the early spread of Islam.

The change spread more slowly in the West, where the office of abbot was commonly filled by laymen till the end of the 7th century.

Called the bloomery process, it produced very soft but ductile wrought iron and, by 800 BC, the technology had spread to Europe.

Galileo wrote " Waves are produced by the vibrations of a sonorous body, which spread through the air, bringing to the tympanum of the ear a stimulus which the mind interprets as sound ", a remarkable statement that points to the beginnings of physiological and psychological acoustics.

it was noted by Bohr that the existence of any sort of wave packet implies uncertainty in the wave frequency and wavelength, since a spread of frequencies is needed to create the packet itself.

* In the Odyssey, Calypso is described as having " spread a table with ambrosia and set it by Hermes, and mixed the rosy-red nectar.

The spread of the Akkadian state as far as the " silver mountain " ( possibly the Taurus Mountains ), the " cedars " of Lebanon, and the copper deposits of Magan, was largely motivated by the goal of securing control over these imports.

The name's popularity was spread throughout the Greek world by the military conquests of King Alexander III, commonly known as " Alexander the Great ".

Selection by lottery was the standard means as it was regarded as the more democratic: elections would favour those who were rich, noble, eloquent and well-known, while allotment spread the work of administration throughout the whole citizen body, engaging them in the crucial democratic experience of, to use Aristotle's words, " ruling and being ruled in turn " ( Politics 1317b28 – 30 ).

The spread of antibacterial resistance often occurs through vertical transmission of mutations during growth and by genetic recombination of DNA by horizontal genetic exchange.

The spread of malaria by means of mosquitoes is common.

The social system of " courtly love ", as gradually elaborated by the Provençal troubadours from the mid twelfth century, soon spread.

Expansion boards were made by Richmond Sound Design that allow their show control and sound design software to communicate with their custom hardware frames either by ribbon cable or fiber optic cable for long distances, allowing the Amiga to control up to eight million digitally controlled external audio, lighting, automation, relay and voltage control channels spread around a large theme park, for example.