Re: Between groups.

• Previous message: Keith Henson: ""Ideas have a life of their own" (Origin of Quote?)"
• Maybe in reply to: Keith Henson: "Between groups."
• Next in thread: Dace: "Re: earliest memetics paper? and a question."
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]

At 02:54 PM 27/02/04 -0500, frankie wrote:

snip

>I am not unfamiliar with kin-selection, but I don't understand why this
>means that considering things at the group-level is invalid.

Nothing at all wrong with considering groups, especially in social animals. But you should stay aware that (at the biological level) what gets conserved or lost over generations is genes.

>It is kind of fractal like - patterns recurring across scale. Thanks for
>all the URL's. I hadn't heard of the conflict between Gould and Wilson,
>both of whom I admire.

I knew about it, but not how intense it had been.

Keith Henson

=============================================================== This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing) see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit

• Next message: Francesca S. Alcorn: "RE: Is Freud contagious?"
• Previous message: Keith Henson: ""Ideas have a life of their own" (Origin of Quote?)"
• Maybe in reply to: Keith Henson: "Between groups."
• Next in thread: Dace: "Re: earliest memetics paper? and a question."
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Mon 01 Mar 2004 - 18:12:08 GMT