RE: Useless memes

From: Bruce Jones (BruceJ@nwths.com)
Date: Fri May 12 2000 - 18:53:54 BST

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Another conundrum comes to mind here ..... "Six of one half-a-dozen of the
other"
BJ

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wade T.Smith [SMTP:wade_smith@harvard.edu]
> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 12:39 PM
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> Subject: Re: Useless memes
>
> 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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