Re: Education and Genetics

From: Alan Patrick (a.patrick@btinternet.com)
Date: Fri 30 May 2003 - 00:06:05 GMT

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    > Desire for education does seem to be a meme that is, from a genetic
    > perspective, best approached hypocritically. By spreading the meme "get
    > educated" one hopefully produces a caste of highly effective cuckolded
    > workers. This allows the rest of the species to become genetic free
    riders;
    > taking advantage of the products of the educated to proliferate their own
    > genes.

    I'm being a bit slow here, sorry - how do you mean "cuckolded". Apart from that, v useful post - have you read "Sperm Wars" btw?

    Rgds

    Alan

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