fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 5 months agoExtinctionsmander.xyzimagemessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1651arrow-down112
arrow-up1639arrow-down1imageExtinctionsmander.xyzfossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square25fedilink
minus-squareXantar@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up115·5 months agoThe ragetacean era was so joyful and expressive. Now it’s only sad wojak. I guess memes adapt to their environmental pressures, which says a lot about our inner selves too.
minus-squarewanderer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months ago I guess memes adapt to their environmental pressures That should not be in any way surprising. The word was coined by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.
minus-squareantidote101@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·5 months agoI suspect that the mass extinction was caused by 4chans alt-right phase… And perhaps even earlier in the atheism+ and gamer gate periods.
The ragetacean era was so joyful and expressive. Now it’s only sad wojak. I guess memes adapt to their environmental pressures, which says a lot about our inner selves too.
That should not be in any way surprising.
I suspect that the mass extinction was caused by 4chans alt-right phase… And perhaps even earlier in the atheism+ and gamer gate periods.