Introduced byCharles Lumsden andEdward O. Wilson in their bookGenes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process (1981); fromculture +‎-gen.

culturgen (pluralculturgens)

1. One of thepropagatingmutatingculturalunits that form the subject ofmemetics.

   Synonym:meme

The term has declined in popularity, and now the slightly older termmeme (coined byRichard Dawkins in his bookThe Selfish Gene) is almost universally used instead.

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