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cultural | culturgen |

As an adjective cultural

is pertaining to culture.

As a noun culturgen is

one of the propagating mutating cultural units that form the subject of memetics.

cultural

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to culture.
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    • , title= Ode to Prime Numbers , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.}}

    Derived terms

    * culturally * intercultural * monocultural * multicultural * transcultural * cultural transmission * cultural anthropology * cultural literacy * cultural wealth * cultural evolution * cultural understanding * cultural tradition

    culturgen

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of the propagating mutating cultural units that form the subject of memetics.

    • Synonyms

    * meme

    Usage notes

    Introduced by introduced by Charles Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson in their book Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process (1981), the term has fallen in popularity, and now the slightly older term meme (coined by in his book The Selfish Gene ) is used in its stead almost universally.