Re: pet peeves - memetic books

From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu 19 Dec 2002 - 05:26:46 GMT

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    >From: Ray Recchia <rrecchia@mail.clarityconnect.com>
    >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >Subject: Re: pet peeves - memetic books
    >Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 07:33:49 -0500
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    >>What's people's views on _Sense and Nonsense_ by Laland and Brown. I
    >>bought it but haven't gotten around to diving deeply into the book yet.
    >>
    >>I
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    >Don't know about the others you were talking about but this one is next on
    >my list. It looks very good.
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    Memetics isn't the sole topic of the book. They, at least from what I've gleaned from the intro, discuss ev psych, behavio(u)ral ecology and gene-culture co-evolution too and I have my hopes high that they aren't cheerleaders and will make an even handed and somewhat critical assessment of each topic.

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