culturgen
/ˈkʌltʃədʒ(ə)n/Biology and Sociology
noun
In the terminology of C. J. Lumsden and E. O. Wilson: an element of behaviour or cultural artefact whose repetition or reproduction is transmissible from one generation to another and may be subject to a selective process; a cultural trait considered as a theoretical unit of cultural evolution (and thus analogous to a gene).
- Now largely displaced by the similar concept of the meme..
Origin
1980s. From culture + -gen.
- population genetics
- population group
- population I
- population II
- population III
- populationist
- population pyramid
- majority
- majority calling
- majority carrier
- majority leader
- majority rule
- Majority Socialist
- majority verdict
- majorization
- majorize
- major junior
- major league
- major-leaguer
- majorly
- major medical
- Major Mitchell
- majormitchell
- Major of the Palace
- majoron