Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id EAA05967 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 10 Mar 2000 04:10:33 GMT Message-Id: <200003100409.XAA06619@mail3.lig.bellsouth.net> From: "Joe E. Dees" <joedees@bellsouth.net> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 22:12:34 -0600 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Martin Gardner's commentary References: <B0000677437@htcompmail.htcomp.net> In-reply-to: <MailDrop1.2d7j-PPC.1000310105010@mac463.wehi.edu.au> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12b) Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
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From: John Wilkins <wilkins@wehi.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Martin Gardner's commentary
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What are the URL's of the Nature and Science reviews?
>
> On Thu, 09 Mar 2000 18:22:45 -0500 mmills@htcomp.net (Mark M. Mills)
> wrote:
>
> >The Gardner review follows in the footsteps of the Nature and Science
> >reviews of Blackmore's book. In brief, he thinks it silly. At the end
> >of
> >the review, Gardner sums up his feelings: "Is memetics a misguided
> >attempt
> >on the part of behavioral scientists to imitate genetics with its gene
> >units and physics with its elementary particles? In a few years we may
> >know."
> >
> >I suspect Gardner has little doubt about the outcome. He find the
> >whole
> >notion silly. He quotes H. Allen Ore, to avoid having to say it
> >himself:
> >"H. Allen Ore, a University of Rochester geneticist, was quoted in Time
> >as
> >dismissing memetics as "an utterly silly idea. It's just a cocktail
> >party
> >science."
>
> It's H Allen Orr, a notable evolutionary biologist at the University of
> Rochester, NY.
>
> See his home page at
> <http://www.rochester.edu/College/BIO/faculty/Orr.html>, but there's no
> mention of memes on his publication page
> <http://www.rochester.edu/College/BIO/ORRLAB/TALENPAGE.HTML>
> --
>
> John Wilkins, Head, Graphic Production
> The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
> Melbourne, Australia
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