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On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Wade T.Smith wrote:
>
>And, (I shudder to ask) _is_ this a hypothesis of Blackmore's- that such
>plasticity _should_ be evidenced
I think the reference was to her suggestion that evolutionary expansion of the
brain was meme-driven, so it's not relevant where we're looking at expansion of
an individual brain (except for Lamarkians!).
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