Question

Jackson rejects Richard Dawkins’s notion that cultural “memes” are like biological “genes” and argues instead that memes are more like jokes. What are her objections to Dawkins’s metaphor, and why does she think memes are better understood by analogy to jokes?

Answer 1

The term meme was introduced in 1976 by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. He conceived of memes as the cultural parallel to biological genes and considered them as being in control of their own reproduction.

Step-by-step explanation:

There have been some serious criticisms of memetics. Namely, there are a few key points on which most criticisms focus: mentalism, cultural determinism, Darwinian reduction, a lack of academic novelty, and a lack of empirical evidence of memetic mechanisms.