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noun
One of the propagating mutating cultural units that form the subject of memetics.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: meme
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History
Introduced by Charles Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson in their book Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process (1981); from culture + -gen.
