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When did memes invented?

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    The word meme is a neologism coined by Richard Dawkins.It originated from Dawkins's 1976 book The Selfish Gene.The new soup is the soup of human culture.”Dawkins needed a noun to describe this concept of the transmission of an idea.He initially toyed with the Greek word mimeme, meaning imitation, but he wanted something shorter that gestured to the English gene.He landed on meme.

  • Ludwig
    Lv 7
    9 months ago

    You must not say 'When did memes invented?' , that is not grammar.

    You must say "When was memes invented?"

  • Anonymous
    9 months ago

    Well the name was invented in the 1970s by biologist Richard Dawkins.  And it became a real field of study in the 1990s.  But as a phenomenon it's probably been around forver.

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