An Ecological refugium is what is in colloquial German often understood by ecological niche. <
> Is an ecologically characterized location where a once abundant species can survive and thrive. …
**Element fauceirs** are the building blocks of an aggregate fauceir. The set of element fauceirs that belong to an aggregate fauceir define its structure, function, and behavior. The terms master …
**Endosymbiogenesis** describes evolution as an accumulation of symbiotic mergers. The theory was initiated by [[../KonstantinMereschkowski|Mereschkowski]] who correctly assumed that chloroblasts derive from Cyanobacteria and added by [[../IvanEmanuelWallin|Wallin]] who came up …
**Evolutionary Distance** is the difference in evolutionary levels. Evolutionary levels can only be measured if evolutionary progress is assumed, so the determination of evolutionary distance requires measurement of evolutionary progress. …
**Evolution** is an automatic process in nature that improves adaptability and concomitantly leads to increasing complexity. This definition significantly differs from the one presently used in evolutionary biology, which is …
Demographic control is a fauceir that evolved with the advent of societies. It is a byproduct of social evolution. One of many social fauciers that are essential for society's persistence. …
The term [[../EvolutionDefinition|Evolution]] has undergone an evolution itself. From a term that describes speciation, natural selection, and adaptation, evolution diverged into a term dscribing a mere genetic variation overtime to …
The evolution of societies life cycles is tightly connected with human history. In fact human history is the collection of various accounts of human societies rise and fall. As a …
**Evolutionary progress** describes magnitude and direction of evolution. Progress is measurable by level and pace. There is progress in evolution which is obvious to everyone who compares the simplicity of …
There are many ways of course to handle religion, as a believer or as a scientist, for instance. There are many ways to study religion, sill. Yo may count the …
**Evolvability** describes the ability to evolve. There is lot of confusion about the definition which are rooted in two main unanswered questions. # Which unit is considered to evolve? # …
When trying to apply fauceir rules to explain some observations and to project further developments, the following steps can be applied. # **Determine the limits of a fauceir.** That is …
A fauceir's death is the end point of its life cycle. When death occurs not all the sub-fauceirs die too. On the contrary some of them may even flourish. Instead, …
**Fauceir** is an acronym of **f**unctional **a**bstract **u**nit **c**ontrolling **e**volutionary **i**nformation **r**ecovery. It was necessary to define this term to describe process and mechanism of evolution. A fauceir encompasses both …
A fauceir's environment is the sum of all neighboring fauceirs capable to exchange information or exert some type of control. This includes master as well as slave fauceirs. The function …
This article is about the essential properties of a fauceir. Essential are thos properties that define the whole class. In this case, the essential properties of fauceirs are faund in …
**Fauceir evolution theory** describes mechanisms of evolution from fauceir perspective. The abstract mechanisms are applicable to all levels of evolution. Biological evolution as studied by Darwinism and it varieties is …
The concept of **fauceir inheritance** is different from [[../FauceirHeritage|heritage]]. <
> Inheritance is a fauceir whose slave fauceirs push the development of a fauceir in a defined direction. The direction …
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According to the [[../TimeLimitRule|rule]], fauceirs have a limited life span. The life cycle of a fauceir consists of the following stages: # creation # progression # adaptation # rudimentation # …
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**Fauceir memory**, by contrast to //[[../HumanMemory|Human memory]]// is a general concept and describes the accumulation of stored information in all fauceirs. == Examples == === Atom Structure === Electrons always …
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There is a philosophical tenet around that not only strictly denies teleology but even denies all kinds of meaning in nature an thinking. That's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism|nihilism]]. Some authors claim Darwin's theory …
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The dualism embraced by fauceir theory between a control and information is mirrored in quantum physics by the dualism of matter and force. Einstein's famous formula <>E = m \, …
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Every [[../FauceirDefinition|fauceir]] follows a set of logical rules. Rules can be distinguished in empirical rules and logical rules. In an ideal case rules are logical and empirically supported. Empirical rules …
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Fauceir Theory is a materialistic philosophical theory in which all entities are atomized into abstract units, [[../FauceirDefinition|fauceirs]]. This approach is particularly useful when modelling evolution in all spheres of nature, …
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The main claims of fauceir theory # Every existing object can be interpreted as a fauceir. # Every fauceir can be interpreted as a container of an infinite number of …
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A filter is a subclass of a model that intentionally and not accidentally, blinds out some aspects of the reality. Filters are [[../Model|models]] designed to reduce complexity and to make …
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By Fisherian Runaway genetically oriented evolutionary biologists understand the effect that sexual selection favors the evolution of traits that are disadvantageous for survival. Male ornamentation like the peacock plumage are …
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When reading about mathematical models of evolution you will probably inevitably bump into //The Genetical Theory Of Natural Selection//<[>1<]>. This book praised by many authors as the fundamental work …
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The section **general fauceir properties** only describes properties that are common to all fauceirs. As fauceirs are such a abstract entity those general properties cannot but being abstract too. * …
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**Generalization** is method and result of a cognitive process that creates an epistemological fauceir that succinctly describes all possible states of a set of entities. <> digraph G { rankdir="LR"; …
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Synonyms: Accomodation, Genetic
**Genetic accommodation** is a concept of evolution introduced by Mary Jane West-Eberhard[1,2]. According to Braendle and Flatt[3], genetic accommodation is a generalization of the concept of [[../GeneticAssimilation|genetic assimilation]]. Although I …
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Synonyms: Assimilation, Genetic
**Genetic Assimilation** is an evolutionary concept developed by [[../ConradHalWaddington|Conrad Hal Waddington]]. It is explains with Darwinian principles how acquired characters become inheritable. Probably because of his leftist political views his …
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Synonyms: Rule of Growth
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> The size rule of evolution states that a fauceir if not restricted otherwise tends to grow in size. <
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How [[../FriedrichAugustvonHayek|F.A.v. Hayek]] described social evolution is shown in this video. <> Hayek can be considered kind of a [[../Vordenker|Vordenker]] of fauceir theory. His view that social rules, …
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> **[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Spencer|Herbert Spencer]]** (27/04/1820-08/12/1903) developed a theory of social evolution. His theory includes a definition of [[http://fauceir.local/main/page/SocialProgress|progress]], and embraces the whole natural world beginning with the origination of planets …
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Synonyms: Human Intelligence
**Intelligence** is the readiness of a human's brain to create cognitive fauceirs. This is compatible with the essence of intelligence tests that mainly test the capability to swiftly find solutions …
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Synonyms: Rule of Imprecision
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> Every interaction among fauceirs entails unwanted side effects. <
> == Conclusions Imprecision is involved in all control processes. Every information exchange involves unintended side effects, collateral damage. It …
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Synonyms: Behavioral Imprinting
In behavioral science, imprinting is an adopted bahavioral pattern that ususlly lasts for a lifetime. From a historical perspective behavioral imprinting is an itermediate fauceir between genetic inheritance and the …
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Marx' discovery that //being determines consciousness// holds true for evolutionary theory too. His famous quote is found here ([[http://www.mlwerke.de/me/me13/me13_007.htm|Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels - Werke, (Karl) Dietz Verlag, Berlin. Band 13, 7. …
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Our thinking is limited by ideology. Ideology is made to subconsciously influence ideas. That, of course, holds true for whole frameworks of ideas, theories. Evolutionary theory makes no exception. Since …
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As on this page the fauceir model of inequality is described, inequality is a treated as a fauceir that evolved 10,000-60,000 years ago. Inequality evolved because societies that exhibited inequality …
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The term **information** as it is used in Fauceir Theory fundamentally differs from information theory. Fauceir Theory considers the material realization of information. Information theory intentionally abstracts from the material …
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This article tackles the differences between fauceir [[../FauceirInheritance|inheritance]] and [[../FauceirHeritage|heritage]]. For definition of these terms, please see specific articles. In both cases we deal with a fauceir that consists of …
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Synonyms: Rule of Progressive Blinding; Rule of Progressive Inertness
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> == Rational Proof # Each fauceir consists of an infinite number of element fauceirs. …
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When we talk about intelligence on this page, intelligence is not understood as the sum of acquired knowledge, it is even not the intelligence quotient IQ. Intelligence is defined as …
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Synonyms: Rule of blindness; Dark matter rule
== Rule **Invisibility Rule** states that two fauceirs are mutually invisible if and only if they do not share fauceirs that can interact. The 'if and only if' indicates that …
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Synonyms: Types of Fauceir Change
Three levels of change in fauceirs can be distinguished. # Mutation. # Adaptation. # Evolution. In any given fauceir the possibilities of mutations are abundant. Many of these are deleterious. …
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**[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus|Thomas Robert Malthus]]** in his //Essay on the Principle of Population// stated that populations growth will lead to famine and populations will decline<[>. Some scientists even predict a next …
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**Mass extiction** is significant decline of a certain group of fauceirs over a relatively short period of time. Mass extinction has to be distinguished from normal death rates in connection …
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**[[../MassExtinction|Mass extiction]]** occur on a regular basis in each evolution. As mass extinctions are essential to evolutionary process preventing them hinders evolutionary progress. == Rational == The easiest way for …
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**Memes** constitute special class of social fauceirs that evolved predominantly to control either human individuals or [[../Society|groups]] of individuals. Though communication in social compounds is a prerequisite of the evolution …
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Memory is stored [[../Information|information]], and as information is a fauceir, memory is a specific set of fauceirs that works a a template that allows to recall the same or quite …
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In science when we often encounter processes of thought in which micro and macro relationships are distinguished and analyzed separately. Micro- and macroevolution as well as micro- and macroeconomics may …
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Synonyms: Scientific Model
A model is a representation of the objectively existing reality. By that token, a model is not the reality itself but only a mirror image. That definition of a model …
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In genetics, ** mutability** describes the tendency to undergo genetic mutations. Even in biology the term can be applied to different units of organization, with a single nucleotide being the …
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Wikipedia explains the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_big_to_fail|term too-big-to-fail]] economically only. By that definition the term describes a set of enterprises whose failure may be disastrous to the whole economy, so the state is …
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Synonyms: Neutral Changes
**Neutral evolution** is a concept of evolution that considers changes to the genomic DNA as result of stochastical processes by contrast to adaptation, the usual concept. == History == The …
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> Niche Construction is an evolutionary process by which for a limited space and time an insulated evolutionary process exists. <
> == Discussion This definition can only be understood …
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**Niche construction** is neatly outlined in a book <[>. In its preface the authors claim: <]> As our investigation proceeded, it appeared the ramifications of niche construction grew to …
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Synonyms: Tumor suppression rule
Peto's Rule is the inversion of [[../PetosParadox|Peto's Paradox]]. It is the [[..SlaveryEnforcementRule|Rule of Enforced Enslavement]] applied specifically to the multi-cellularity fauceir. <
> If an organism evolves a larger body …
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**Probability density function** (pdf) of a continuous random variable X is a function that satisfies the following requirements. <>f(x) \ge 0 \;\text{for all}\; x \in \Re <> <>\int_\Re f(x)dx<> If …
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**Probability mass function** (pmf) of a discontinuous random variable X is a function that satisfies the following requirements. <>p_i \ge 0 \;\text{for all}\; i=1,2,3,..., <> <>\sum\limits_{i=1}^\infty p_i = 1<> with …
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Synonyms: Rule of Property Inheritance
The Property Inheritance Rule states that each fauceir which always must be considered as a collection of sub-fauceirs inherits all its properties from its elements. Therefore a fauceirs properties might …
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This page mainly shows a random walk example implemented in python with numpy and pylab. The theory behind random walk [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk|can be learned from Wikipedia]]. <
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This reply is to [[http://socialevolutionforum.com/2012/10/02/david-sloan-wilson-human-cultures-are-primarily-adaptive-at-the-group-level|David Sloan Wilson's blog entry //'Human Cultures are Primarily Adaptive at the Group Level'//]]. Below I will make remarks to some quotes from the text. The …
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Synonyms: Cycle of Reproduction
The **reproduction cycle** is the major fauceir considered in economics. (Reproduction in economics is not so different from reproduction among biological fauceirs.) The theory of reproduction was as far as …
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Synonyms: Isolation, reproductive
**Reproductive isolation** is a term from classical evolutionary theory that describes groups of organisms within a population that show group specific mating preferences, so so individuals more likely find a …
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We call **revolution** a fundamental evolutionary novelty in any kind of social evolution processes.
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**Ring species** is a term introduced by Arthur Cain when elaborating on speciation <[>. Ring species consist of overlapping populations with only subtle differences. The traits change continuously, so …
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Note: the rule of diffluence is merged into the [[../DisparityRule|rule of disparity]]. **Rule of diffluence** states that during evolution a diversification takes place. As a result, fauceirs at several stages …
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The **rule of dwindling mutual importance with increasing evolutionary distance** states that the greater the evolutionary distance between master and slave fauceirs the more negligible its mutual impact. == Rational …
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Synonyms: Rule too-big-to-succeed
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> The rule states that a fauceir tends to fail if it grows too big. <
> == Proof # With an increase in size the probability of deleterious interactions …
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According to classical systems theory a signal is function of time that carries information<[>1<]>. In fauceir terms this needs to be re-defined as not only information gets a broader …
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Simplistic theories of evolution Simplistic models of evolution are around for quite a few centuries. The allow to explain evolution the natural way and therefore they constitute a great leap …
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Synonyms: Slavery Enforcement Rule;Rule of an Inherent Tendency to Enforce Enslavement
**Rule of an Inherent Tendency to Enforce Enslavement** is a special case of the [[../PropertyInheritanceRule|Property Inheritance Rule]]. <
> The more a fauceir is evolved the more pronounced its tendency …
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Synonyms: Social Evolution; Social Darwinism
== Definition == Social evolution is the [[../EvolutionDefinition|evolution]] of social fauceirs. Social evolution is not different from history. In fact social evolution includes history. History is studying social evolution in …
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Let's suppose social evolutionists don't accept the narrow definition of evolution applied by some evolutionary biologists who consider mere genetic change, such as diversification, as evolution. Let's assume social evolution …
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Synonyms: Revolution, social
**Social Revolution** is the subset of revolutions that affect human societies, mostly larger groups of people such as nations.
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Synonyms: Life cycle society
As all fauceirs have a limited life span, this is true for [[..Society|societies]] a subset of [[..SocialFauceir|social fauceirs]] too, of course. The life span of societies may vary from a …
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**Speciation** is the generation of a new species by evolution. It is generally assumed that speciation is the result of isolation as observed by Darwin and Wallace on separate islands, …
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As a [[../PropertyInheritanceRule|rule]] the properties that belong to a specific fauceir are determined by the fauceir content. That is the properties of element fauceirs, the degree of modification that they …
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Synonyms: Proxy parameter
The term **surrogate parameter** is common in medical literature while **proxy parameter** or simply proxy is often used in social science. Both terms mean virtually the same. An easily measurable …
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Though evolutionary progress is difficult to discern, [[../SurrogateParameter|surrogate parameters]] exist. Surrogate parameters involve imprecision. Though imprecise, those paramaters are chosen because they are easier to measure. They yield reliable results …
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As Fauceir is the term that covers system and information we may define system by a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition|genus–differentia definition]]: System is a fauceir in which system properties significantly dominate so that …
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Synonyms: Scientific theory
A scientific theory is a specific subset of a scientific model. A theory consist of a framework of causally interrelated rational claims that can be described by [[../Model|secondary models]], mathematically …
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Synonyms: Rule of Limited Space of Existence
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> == Rational Proof # Every fauceir consists of an unlimited number of element fauceirs. # Each of these …
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In the evolutionary literature the term "umbrella theory" can be found. There is no clear definition of that term. When googling the term different meanings not associated with evolutionary theory …
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**Uncertainty Proviso** is a restriction that has to be made to every theory or rule. Every prediction whether in physics, chemistry biology, psychiatry, or sociology involves a certain degree of …
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**Universe** serves as root of our cladogram of fauceirs. Our universe is the largest container that holds all the fauceirs we know so far. We don't know about fauceirs outside …
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> At any given space of time an unlimited number of fauceirs is created and destroyed. <
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Violence describes a fauceir control that causes unpleasant feelings in an individual. It is subjective as the same type of control might be felt differently in various environment or by …
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Synonyms: Rule of visibility
**Visibility Rule** states that other fauceirs are visible to a certain fauceir if and only if both can interact. And interaction usually requires common sub-fauceirs. Visibility can be described qualitatively …
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Synonyms: Mastermind - Vordenker
I'm a great admirer of the English language. While learning it, I always detect new words and expressions. That is new words not in the sense I have not known …
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Synonyms: Reinforcement
**Wallace Effect** is a honorific term that relates reinforcement to [[../AlfredRusselWallace|Alfred Russel Wallace]], the co-inventor—if not the original creator himself—of the theory of evolution by natural selection. The concept of …
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This is actually a comment on comments made [[http://socialevolutionforum.com/2013/01/13/is-war-creative/|on this web page]]. Probably it is a good idea to read this page first although I quoted the most interesting points. …
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Meme is an evolutionary unit devised by Richard Dawkins to explain social evolution in a fashion similar to genes<[>. [[http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/What-Defines-a-Meme.html|When I first learned about memes]], the fauceir concept was …
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