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What is memetics?

What is memetics? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (philosophy) The study of memes and their social and cultural effects.
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This terminology was originally introduced by Huxley as part of his concept of memetics analyzing the transmission of cultural information.
In short then, memetics can and should benefit from a methodology that prescinds from the question of telos in both its explicans and explicanda.
Gronas draws primarily on cognitive poetics, cultural memory theory, and memetics, but memetics is the dominant member of this triad.
When evaluating the development of meta-memes, critics engaged in memetics must attend to mimesis.
These popularisations then led to the emergence of memetics, a field from which Dawkins has distanced himself.
In the new tradition of memetics, work would be described as a replicative complex unit, probably a meta-meme.

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