Re: Useless memes

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Fri May 12 2000 - 18:39:22 BST

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    On 05/12/00 06:19, Chuck Palson said this-

    >How could the egg appear without sexual
    >reproduction preceding it?

    Hmmm. Didn't say that. Of course sexual reproduction came previously-
    that is what produces the egg.

    But the egg _has_ to come before the chicken, because the egg came from a
    pair of proto-chickens, and is the mutation that produced the first
    chicken, who grew from it.

    There _is_ a definitive answer to which came first, the chicken or the
    egg, in biological terms.

    As for whether, in other terms and places, language, society, culture,
    and behavior line up as nicely, well, that is the question.

    - Wade

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