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Memes as Discrete Units

By admin - Posted on August 21st, 2007
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Though Dawkins defined the meme as “a unit of cultural transmission,
or a unit of imitation”, memeticists vary in their definitions of meme.
The lack of a consistent, rigorous and precise understanding of what
typically makes up one unit of cultural transmission remains a problem
in debates about memetics.

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