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