If you don't toot your own horn, someone else will use it as a spittoon.
In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts.
Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.
Evolution. . . is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.
It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.
New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation.
It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.
But the truth is the highest consideration.
There's so much noise that's happening in our world, but the little voice that you've always got to listen to is your gut and your intuition, and you can do things and go beyond boundaries, if you to trust that gut and instinct.
The journey is the reward
If you want to develop courage, then simply act courageously when it's called for. If you do something over and over again, you develop a habit. Some people develop the habit of courage. Some people develop the habit of non-courage.