A Joosr Guide to The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Similar to how genes compete for survival, a meme also fights for attention. Just as genes create organisms, memes create entire organizations such as a church centered on the idea of a god. The survival of memes is dependent only on their environment and not on factors outside their environment such as biological evolution. An example of an environment conducive to the survival of a meme can be observed through the internet, where the internet is the environment, and data (such as audio or video) that thrives on the internet is the meme.

must consider the culture pool to be similar to the gene pool, where the smallest unit of cultural evolution can be referred to as a “meme.”

contrary to popular belief, evolution does not depend on the organism but rather on a component known as the “gene.” A gene is made up of shorts strands of DNA

The process of evolution primarily depends on two concepts: a population with varying abilities, and an environment containing finite resources.