Re: Monkeys stone herdsman in Kenya

From: Mark M. Mills (mmills@htcomp.net)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 22:11:09 GMT

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    Joe,

    At 01:59 PM 2/24/00 -0600, you wrote:

    >That they co-operated in such an action is not
    >necessarily an example of memetics; wolf packs cooperate in
    >serially chasing down prey. Cooperation can be genetically
    >encoded.

    Based on your comments, I am assuming you have concluded that wolf pack
    behavior (serial chasing down prey) is coded into their DNA.

    Are you suggesting that baboon DNA encodes group rock throwing?

    Mark

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