English Explanatory Dictionary

culturgen

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One of the propagating mutating cultural units that form the subject of memetics.

Word forms

culturgen culturgens

Etymology

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

Synonyms

meme
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