Meanings
nounmeme pool (plural meme pools)
plural meme pools
- human sciencesThe set of all memes present in a given human population.
Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation.
1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Origin
By analogy with gene pool.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish meemipooli
- meemipoolia set of all memes in a given population
Polish pula memów
- pula memówa set of all memes in a given population
Russian мемофонд
- мемофонд (memofond)a set of all memes in a given population
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