From: Richard Brodie (richard@brodietech.com)
Date: Wed 28 May 2003 - 20:36:35 GMT
Scott wrote:
<<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.>>
It would seem easy to extend this, then, to gene-meme symbioses. Education,
for example, is parasitic because it reduces genetic fitness. How about them
apples?
Richard Brodie
www.memecentral.com
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