But new waves of Darwinian thinking keep coming. Darwin's Dangerous Idea, p 63. Within these pages you can find out about us and our work. We hope you find these pages useful and informative.
Memes tend to make copies of themselves and are therefore replicators , like genes.
They are stored in human brains and passed on by imitation. As examples he suggested tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Dawkins has also written about memes in The Extended Phenotype and in a book chapter entitled Viruses of the Mind . He considers religions to be among the most powerful of these mind viruses. The word meme has recently been included in the Oxford English Dictionary where it is defined as follows A self-replicating element of culture, passed on by imitation .