William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton, Lingua ex Machina, glossary (MIT Press)

William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton, Lingua ex Machina, glossary (MIT Press): "meme Richard Dawkins’s 1976 coinage, on the analogy to gene (with a little aid from mime and mimic), for a cultural copying unit, such as the word or melody that is mimicked by others."