Meme, first coined by Richard Dawkins of the University of Oxford in 1976 in his best-selling book The Selfish Gene, is a new theory explaining the cultural evolution.

模因论相对来说是一个新理论，道金斯于1976年在其《自私的基因》一书中首次提出模因论这个概念。

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What this often--What this can be viewed as, as an extended version of selfish gene theory, which is that to the extent you're interconnected with other people you care about them more for purely selfish reasons.

其实我们可以把这个观点视为，自私基因理论的延伸，也就是说根据你和别人,互相联系的程度,你对他人的关心更多是因为自私的原因。

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