culturgen

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culturgen

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

noun culturgens

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

    Similar: meme

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@misc{culturgen_2026,
  title = {culturgen},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/culturgen},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}