RE: objections to "memes"

From: Gatherer, D. (Derek) (D.Gatherer@organon.nhe.akzonobel.nl)
Date: Fri Mar 24 2000 - 07:33:05 GMT

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    > Richard:
    > So I ask again, how do you explain it? [a learned behavior]
    >
    > Derek:
    > Oh, I can't explain it at all.

    Joe:
    How do we arrive at this
    necessary-for-selection-and-evolution-to-proceed multiplicity, if not
    by means of internal mutation/modification of the original resulting
    in a spectrum of variations?

    Derek:
    I can't answer that either. I think we have to _assume_ for the present
    that culture is a system of Darwinian evolution, and proceed to try to
    identify the units of selection and selective forces etc, and see how the
    empirical results shape up to the expectations of the theory. This is what
    I call 'methodological' Darwinism.

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