"culturgen" meaning in English

See culturgen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: culturgens [plural]
Etymology: Introduced by Charles Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson in their book Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process (1981); from culture + -gen. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|culture|gen}} culture + -gen Head templates: {{en-noun}} culturgen (plural culturgens)
  1. One of the propagating mutating cultural units that form the subject of memetics. Wikipedia link: Charles J. Lumsden, E. O. Wilson, Richard Dawkins Synonyms: meme

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