Meme
A term first coined by Richard Dawkins for the cultural equivalent of genes. Ideas, phrases, fads, beliefs and so on such as the meme concept itself are examples. Their study is known as memetics.
Metazoan
The overall classification of multicellular animals.
Mitochondria
An organelle of eukaryotic cells for energy production through oxygen respiration.
Modularity
The tendency of complex, evolving, self-organizing systems such as brains or genomes to form differentiated functional modules.
Morphogenesis
The sequential anatomical development of the bodily morphology of an organism.
Multiverse
The ensemble of all possible universes that might exist, most of which would not allow life and human intelligence to appear.
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