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13 May 2020

The meme economy

It isn’t often that Feedback has a bone to pick with the Society for Conservation Biology. Its cause is admirable, its intentions pure and its disdain for bone-picking internationally acknowledged.

But the Soc for Conny B, as it pleases us to call it, has recently committed a mammoth faux pas. Its fauxest pas, arguably, since failing to conserve the biology of the mammoth.

In a recent issue of its journal, Conservation Biology, a paper was published entitled . In it, the authors reveal that entertaining internet memes can…

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