Badomics words and the power and peril of the ome-meme
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Languages and cultures, like organisms, are constantly evolving. Words, like genes, can come and go–spreading around or going extinct. Here I discuss the spread of one small subset of words that are meant to convey “comprehensiveness” in some way: the “omes” and...
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Oxford University Press
2012-07-01
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| Series: | GigaScience |
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| Online Access: | http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/content/1/1/6 |