RE: Watches & Necklaces

From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed 28 May 2003 - 18:43:04 GMT

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    >From: "Richard Brodie" <richard@brodietech.com>
    >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    >To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    >Subject: RE: Watches & Necklaces
    >Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 10:34:10 -0700
    >
    >Scott Chase wrote:
    >
    ><<Yes, especialy the complexit of interspecific relationships so we don't
    >have
    >people makin impisti ecologcial analogies for the putative relatioship of
    >memes to people.>>
    >
    >Are there any objective measurements of whether a symbiotic relationship is
    >parasitic or mutual? Or is it all subjective?
    >
    >
    Simply put the parasitic relationship is +-, the commensal relationship is
    +0 and the mutual relationship is ++. The + means fitness or benefit inceases where - means these decrease. 0 means no effect. Minkoff's text (p. 157) discusses population increases versus decreases and the Lotka-Volterra equations.

    I don't know how easily these relationships can be parsed in nature.

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