Memes: Food for Attitudes and Behavior Crucial for Our Survival

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Bioessays 41 (9):1900075 (2019)
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Graphical AbstractAn effort is made to frame memes within a human evolutionary context in which memes are complex emotion-related tools of enhanced learning and spread of language, art, culture and technology. The basic idea is that any information can become a meme if emotions are evoked in a recipient. The evolution of human brain with memetic capabilities thus produced modern humans.

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