RE: meaning in memetics

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 00:49:17 GMT

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    >Don't you give
    >credence to the theory that culture has "taken off" and evolved in many
    >cases against the interest of genes?

    Gack- yes, of course- my recent forwarding about the cultural proclivity
    to promiscuity in the face of the spread of AIDS in Africa is only one
    such glaring evidence that I give full view to the shortness of foresight
    that cultures of ignorance can contain.

    - Wade

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