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The 14 pages that link to Memetics, each with the reason it gives.

• Cultural transmissionCompared with: It offers a replication-based model of transmission, though its units and mechanisms remain disputed.

• Cultural evolutionCompared with: Its gene-like analogy is one influential but contested way to model cultural change.

• CultureRelated: It treats replicating ideas as a proposed mechanism of cultural transmission.

• Urban legendRelated: Its replication model helps describe why memorable legend details persist while others disappear.

• Gene–culture coevolutionCompared with: It focuses on cultural replication rather than reciprocal evolution between cultural and genetic inheritance.

• Social contagionCompared with: It frames cultural spread as replication, rather than focusing on interpersonal influence.

• Folklore studiesCompared with: Its replication model can be compared with folklore’s socially situated transmission.

• OriginalityRelated: Cultural transmission complicates any sharp boundary between copying and creation.

• Richard DawkinsBroader topic: Dawkins's coinage inspired attempts to explain how ideas spread and change.

• MemeBroader topic: Memetics developed the idea into a framework for studying cultural change.

• Viral marketingRelated: Its replication framework helps explain why some campaign messages persist and mutate.

• Cognitive science of religionCompared with: Its replicator metaphor differs from cognitive accounts centered on how minds reconstruct cultural ideas.

• Susan BlackmoreNarrower topic: It is the framework Blackmore developed into a broad account of cultural evolution.

• Hundredth monkey effectRelated: It treats cultural spread as transmission rather than evidence of shared consciousness.