ilmneme
An ilmneme is a hypothetical unit of cultural information, analogous to a gene in biological inheritance. The term was coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene." Dawkins proposed that just as genes are the replicators of biological information, memes are the replicators of cultural information. An ilmneme, in this context, would represent a specific instance or manifestation of a meme.
Examples of ilmnemes could include a particular melody, a fashion trend, a religious belief, a philosophical
The concept of the ilmneme has been influential in the field of memetics, which is the study