(from Greek, mimeme: something imitated) A meme is understood to be a cultural unit, transmitted between individuals and across generations by non-genetic means. Memes are things such as practices, beliefs, icons or any other unit of CULTURE. The term...

A meme (pronounced /ˈmiːm/), as defined within memetic theory, constitutes a theoretical unit of cultural information, the building block of culture or cultural evolution which spreads through diffusion propagating from one mind to another analogously...