How did memes become called memes?

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The word meme is a shortening (modeled on gene) of mimeme (from Ancient Greek , "imitated thing", "to imitate", coined by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976)

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DID YOU EVER WONDER; WHAT MEME MEANS?