[greenwoman]

Chapter 11 of the selfish gene from 1976 plainly states this.

[webmaven]

> Chapter 11 of the selfish gene from 1976 plainly states this.

Yep. And the idea has been elaborated upon by many writers since (especially during the '90s).

[toolslive]

Yep. I wrote a paper about memetic algorithms in the 90s, before it even was called memetic algorithms and before the whole thing was called AI.