Named for the then-common pool-game Kelly pool, Coolidge's painting of dogs playing pool may be considered a progenitor of another memetic pop-culture art genre, that of "dogs playing pool," but it is unlikely that other 20th-century artists in the genre were aware of this little-known painting.
Memetics, Richard Dawkins' theory suggesting that cultural information is transmitted among people in a virus-like fashion
The Board Administration launched a robust social media campaign integrating social media to virally promote Ambition.
Prominent researchers in evolutionary psychology and anthropology, including Scott Atran, Dan Sperber, Pascal Boyer, John Tooby and others, argue the possibility of incompatibility between modularity of mind and memetics.
These include cellular biologist Bruce Lipton, doctor and citizen diplomat Patch Adams, author and researcher Joseph Chilton Pearce, author and Rabbi Gershon Winkle, activists and sex educator Loraine Hutchins, Radical Honesty founder Brad Blanton, editor and author Diana Leafe Christian, memeticist Paxus Calta, and broadcaster, author, and psychotherapist Thom Hartmann.