Re: Monkeys stone herdsman in Kenya

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Date: Sat Mar 11 2000 - 16:21:35 GMT

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    Lloyd,

    >My three conditions for satisfying the hypothesis that the monkeys in
    >question demonstrated memetic behavior (by which we can infer some kind of
    >mental process) satisfy your concerns about variation and permenance. In
    >addition, the possibility of Skinnerian conditioning as an alternate
    >explanation is considered. Your added condition is only an example of
    >experimenter bias.

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