Meme is one of those borrowed terms. The term meme dates back to 1976. Richard Dawkins coined the term in his book “The Selfish Gene.” It’s a shortening of the words mime me. In the book he ...
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The term “meme” was first coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene; it is a shortening of the Greek word mimeme, which means “imitated thing”.