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Richard Semon. Richard Semon. Richard Wolfgang Semon (22 August 1859, in Berlin – 27 December 1918, in Munich) was a German zoologist, explorer, evolutionary biologist, a memory researcher who believed in the inheritance of acquired characteristics and applied this to social evolution. He is known for coining the terms engram and ecphory .
Engram (neuropsychology) An engram is a unit of cognitive information imprinted in a physical substance, theorized to be the means by which memories are stored [1] as biophysical or biochemical [2] changes in the brain or other biological tissue, in response to external stimuli. Demonstrating the existence of, and the exact mechanism and ...
The eponym for the species name "semoni" was fellow German zoologist Richard Semon. Semon's research voyage to Australia procured the holotype that Matschie used to describe the new species. Description. Its head and body is 40–50 mm (1.6–2.0 in) long, while its wingspan is approximately 320 mm (13 in).
Richard Pusey. On 22 April 2020, a truck driver under the influence of drugs, Mohinder Singh, crashed his truck into a Porsche 911 and two police cars on the Eastern Freeway, in the city of Kew East, Australia, killing four police officers who were on routine highway patrol. Prior to the incident, the officers had pulled over the Porsche driver ...
Years active. 1987–present. Employer. Nine Network. Television. Weekend Today. Today. Richard Stephen Wilkins AM (born 19 June 1954) is a New Zealand –born Australian television and radio presenter. He is the entertainment editor for the Nine Network and weekend announcer on smoothfm .
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May 8, 2024 at 5:48 AM. MEXICO CITY (AP) — The mother of two Australian surfers killed in Mexico delivered a moving tribute to her sons Tuesday at a beach in San Diego. “Our hearts are broken ...
Memetics is a theory of the evolution of culture based on Darwinian principles with the meme as the unit of culture. The term "meme" was coined by biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, [1] to illustrate the principle that he later called "Universal Darwinism". All evolutionary processes depend on information being copied ...