Richard Dawkins said Ideas are the new "replicators"... the leap from brain to brain, they have infectivity and spreading power... born from the primordial soup of human culture.. their vector of transmission is language-- and though they are not made of nucleic acid, they have achieved more evolutionary change at a rate the leaves the old gene panting far behind.

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