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A meme (/miːm/; MEEM) is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic...

Charles Darwin published his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, his theory of evolution (the idea that species arose through descent with modification...

Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life is a 1995 book by the philosopher Daniel Dennett, in which the author looks at some of the repercussions of Darwinian...

Sociocultural evolution, sociocultural evolutionism or social evolution are theories of sociobiology and cultural evolution that describe how societies...

Spiritual evolution, also called higher evolution, is the idea that the mind or spirit, in analogy to biological evolution, collectively evolves from a...

"enriched environment that is intended to help a small group of individuals design a new idea by escaping routine organizational procedures." The term originated...

conditions and affect evolution. Some have suggested that in certain cases a form of Lamarckian evolution may occur. The idea of an extended evolutionary...

supposedly more primitive forms over time. The concept relates to the idea that evolution has a divine purpose (teleology) and is thus progressive (orthogenesis)...

Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid...

scientific community accepted Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift, presented in 1912, but the idea lived on in the popular imagination, especially...

that environment. In the early 20th century, competing ideas of evolution were refuted and evolution was combined with Mendelian inheritance and population...

In biology, evolution is the process of change in all forms of life over generations, and evolutionary biology is the study of how evolution occurs. Biological...

of the US policy, such efforts are intended cause socialist system to be transformed from within. The CCP has resisted the idea of Peaceful Evolution...

Cultural evolution is an evolutionary theory of social change. It follows from the definition of culture as "information capable of affecting individuals'...

Evolution:The History of an Idea. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-23693-6. Brundell, Barry, "Catholic Church Politics and Evolution Theory...

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. However, Darwin's book On the Origin of Species gave credence to the idea of heritable effects of use and disuse...

PMC 6586870. PMID 31222018. Kollmann, H. A. (1992). "Tethys—the Evolution of an Idea". In Kollmann, H. A.; Zapfe, H. (eds.). New Aspects on Tethyan Cretaceous...

Berlin: 267–294. Bowler, Peter J. (2003). Evolution: The History of an Idea (3rd ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. pp. 129–134. ISBN 978-0-520-23693-6...

theories of an ancient Earth, and findings of extinctions demonstrated in the fossil geological sequence prompted early ideas of evolution, notably Lamarckism...

on to include cultural evolution and social evolution. In the 1970s, the term "Neo-Evolutionism" was used to describe the idea that "human beings sought...