Re: new memetics article

From: Ray Recchia (rrecchia@mail.clarityconnect.com)
Date: Fri 10 Jan 2003 - 15:40:03 GMT

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    At 09:40 PM 1/9/2003 +0000, you wrote:
    > http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/12/44/bbs00001244-00/Memes2.htm

    His paper would have been helped immensely if he were familiar with Manfred Eigen's mathematically defined quasi-species and error catastrophe threshold. A quasi-species is a population of variants that hovers around a fitness peak. The constant introduction of error insures that no member has ideal fitness, but so long as the error rate does not exceed the selectivity factor modified by overall complexity, the species will continue to maintain a average genotype approximating the ideal fitness candidate.

    >This one is more like it.
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