Re: taxi drivers' hippocampi

From: Joe E. Dees (joedees@bellsouth.net)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 19:01:14 GMT

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    From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk>
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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!).
    >
    Of course, the evolutionary expansion of memes is brain-driven, as
    well; this is what the term "co-evolutionary" means.
    >
    > --
    > Robin Faichney
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