# Richard Dawkins **Domain:** Evolution / Cultural Transmission **Doc Type:** Thinker Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[The Mind's I]], [[Memetics]], [[Digital Evolution]], [[Natural Selection]] --- ## Definition Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist and writer known for gene-centered evolutionary explanation and for introducing the term meme as a model of cultural transmission. ## Corpus Context His appearance in [[The Mind's I]] connects replicating patterns to identity questions, while [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism]] keeps biological and computational evolution precisely distinguished. ## Relationships [[The Mind's I]], [[Memetics]], [[Digital Evolution]], [[Natural Selection]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]] ## Directory Context [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] · [[Team Leela]] ## STEVE Routing This node appears in [[articles/STEVE|STEVE]] within the article’s scientific, intellectual, or institutional topology. Inclusion records the connection documented in that article; it does not by itself establish official membership in [[Team Leela]], shared intent, or a coordinated program. [[articles/STEVE|STEVE]] · [[Team Leela]] · [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism]] · [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]] · [[articles/The Hawking Continuity|The Hawking Continuity]] · [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]]