> Memes are not ideas, they are behaviors. Why do you say that? Wikipedia's definition disagrees with you, > A meme (/ˈmiːm/ meem)[1] is "an idea, behavior, o

> Memes are not ideas, they are behaviors. Why do you say that? Wikipedia's definition disagrees with you, > A meme (/ˈmiːm/ meem)[1] is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture". as does Dawkins himself, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme#Origins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme#Origins And Genes aren't behaviors either. Behaviors are something that the phenotype might perform due to certain genes, but the behavior is not the gene. Genes are a code. They are abstract, discrete, and immortal. That's why they are so useful in biology. As the Wikipedia article notes, the lack of such a parallel in memes limits their scientific utility.