Re: the meme/brain problem

From: Keith Henson (hkhenson@rogers.com)
Date: Wed 11 Feb 2004 - 02:45:14 GMT

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    At 09:02 PM 08/02/04 -0800, Ted wrote:
    > > From: Keith Henson <hkhenson@rogers.com>

    snip

    > > Dawkins and Hamilton made the case that evolution does not
    > > make sense unless you account for gene based inclusive fitness.
    >
    >According to Darwin, evolution is what happens to organisms. He may have
    >been onto something. Gould argues for multi-levels of evolving structure,
    >much like memes and organizations and societies.

    Evolution does not happen to organisms. They live or die, reproduce or fail.

    snip

    Keith Henson

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