(December 4, 2015 at 11:50 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: That deals with the development of ideas on a Darwinian level? As in, something that observes concepts/ideologies more or less like an organism, and distinguishes what factors into how they're selected, how they've changed and adapted?
Dawkins introduced the idea of memetics in the 70s in The Selfish Gene. Memetics has more to do with information transfer so may not be exactly what you're after.