Etymology

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Today it means: One of the propagating mutating cultural units that form the subject of memetics. Full definition →

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The story

Introduced by Charles Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson in their book Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process (1981); from culture + -gen.

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