replicator
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- noun
- /ˈrɛplɪˌkeɪtər/
- Specialized
- a cultural replicator
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Watch on YouTubeAnd and those replicators have consequence, material consequence in the universe.
- And and those replicators have consequence, material consequence in the universe.
Examples
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First, natural selection operates on a number of different kinds of replicators.
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The replicators that form the basis of a language in use, then, are not utterances only.
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In his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins proposed a cultural replicator.
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At the end of his book, however, Dawkins argued that there are other replicators, namely, cultural replicators that are transmitted by imitation.
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Dawkins proposed the meme as a "unit of cultural transmission," a self-perpetuating cultural phenomenon analogous to the gene as a replicator of biological data.
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For example, suppose the disposition selectively to imitate the behaviors of one's conspecifics depends on specific genes that are themselves replicators subject to selection.
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The scientist studied the replicators that spread genetic information in the population.
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In our discussion, we explored how cultural replicators influence the way ideas are shared.
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Researchers are investigating replicators to understand how they affect evolutionary processes.
Synonyms
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A close copy of something real, often a famous object or work of art
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An exact copy of an object or person
Antonyms
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Etymology
The word replicator comes from the Latin verb replicare, which means 'to repeat' and is the same root as replica, a 'copy'. So a replicator can be any thing that is copied and passed on, such as a gene or a cultural idea like a meme.