Re: YA definition

From: Lawrence H. de Bivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Sat Sep 16 2000 - 16:47:39 BST

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    Hmmmm.... Nothing about intra-generational transmission? Seems like half
    the definition is missing.

    Lawrence de Bivort
    The Memetics Group

    On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Wade T.Smith wrote:

    >Just thought, since I for one, was on the rail of definitions, that there
    >is a resource called the Academic Press Dictionary of Science and
    >Technology, and from that comes-
    >
    >********
    >
    >meme
    >
    >Anthropology. any single feature of a culture that can be transmitted
    >from one generation to another; analagous to a gene in genetic
    >transmission.
    >
    >********
    >
    >- Wade
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