noun
- The study of memes and how they spread, evolve, and influence culture and behavior.
Usage: academic field; often used in cultural and evolutionary studies
Examples
- Memetics examines how ideas replicate and spread through populations like genes.
- The professor taught a course on memetics to explore cultural transmission.
- Memetics helps explain why certain catchphrases become viral on social media.
- Some scholars apply memetics to understand the evolution of religious beliefs.
- Internet memes are a modern example studied in memetics research.