culturgen
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Introduced by Charles Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson in their book Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process (1981); from culture + -gen.
Noun[edit]
culturgen (plural culturgens)
Usage notes[edit]
The term has fallen in popularity, and now the slightly older term meme (coined by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene) is almost universally used instead.