RE: memes and sexuality

From: Lawrence H. de Bivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 17 2000 - 14:42:09 BST

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    Interesting question, Vincent. My guess is that the 'volume' of language
    (lots of talking vs little talking) is not related to memetic efficacy. It
    may well be that a large volume of talking might actually drown out the
    memes within it. I do believe that memes have certain linguistic and
    structural properties, and that talking that lacks these properties will
    not have memetic impact.

    Best regards,
    Lawrence

    On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Vincent Campbell wrote:
    >A relatively large scale study (3000 kids) suggests that girls exceed boys
    >at language skills, at least in early childhood. Is this perhaps a genetic
    >legacy of our hunter gatherer origins, in which the men went out and hunted
    >using little verbal communication (no point talking if it's going to scare
    >off the animals you're hunting), whilst the women stayed together in groups,
    >passing the time by talking to each other?

    SNIP

    >whether they think this basic finding is true or not. Nonetheless, does it
    >raise the question of whether or not memes have a gender bias?

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