meme pool

English

Etymology

By analogy with gene pool.

Noun

meme pool (plural meme pools)

1. (philosophy) The set of all memes present in a given human population.
   • 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene:

     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.

Translations

a set of all memes in a given population

Finnish: meemipooli Polish: pula memów f Russian: мемофонд m (memofond)

Further reading

• meme pool on Wikipedia.Wikipedia