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meme pool en · NOUN

Etymology

By analogy with gene pool.

Meanings

1. The set of all memes present in a given human population.
   • Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation. 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene:

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Translations (3)

pl pula memów (a set of all memes in a given population) · ru мемофонд (a set of all memes in a given population) · fi meemipooli (a set of all memes in a given population)