17.07 - 10.04 2020

American R&B and soul vocalist and musician. He has mixed African-American, Caucasian, and Native American (Choctaw) heritage. His most famous hits are: Tell it Like It Is, Everybody Plays the Fool, Don’t Take Away my Heaven.
He has had four platinum albums and four Top 10 hits in the United States. He has also recorded with his brothers Art, Charles and Cyril as The Neville Brothers.

English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. From 1954 to 1959 Dawkins attended Oundle School in Northamptonshire, an English public school with a Church of England ethos. He studied zoology at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating in 1962; while there, he was tutored by Nobel Prize-winning ethologist Nikolaas Tinbergen. He graduated with second-class honours. He continued as a research student under Tinbergen’s supervision, receiving his MA and Doctor of Philosophy degrees by 1966, and remained a research assistant for another year. From 1967 to 1969, Dawkins was an assistant professor of zoology at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1990, he became a reader in zoology at the University of Oxford. In 1995, he was appointed Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford. He held that professorship from 1995 until 2008.

Dawkins is best known for his popularisation of the gene as the principal unit of selection in evolution; this view is most clearly set out in his books: The Selfish Gene (1976), in which he notes that “all life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities”.

In this book he also coined the word meme (the behavioural equivalent of a gene) as a way to encourage readers to think about how Darwinian principles might be extended beyond the realm of genes.

A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that becomes a fad and spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme. A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures.

01 - Joan Baez / 02 - Aaron Neville - Richard Dawkins / 03 - Markus Lüpertz - Eric Burdon / 04 - Bob Dylan - Charlie Watts / 05 - Chick Corea - György Galántai / 06 - László Dús - Gyula Konkoly / 07 - George Clinton - Paul Anka / 08 - David Crosby - Chubby Checker / 09 - Robert Wilson - Paul Simon - Pete Best / 10 - Bruce Nauman - Wadada Leo Smith - Ronnie Cuber

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