The story
Introduced by Charles Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson in their book Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process (1981); from culture + -gen.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: One of the propagating mutating cultural units that form the subject of memetics. Full definition →
Introduced by Charles Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson in their book Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process (1981); from culture + -gen.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.