Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id UAA28252 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 20 Jul 2000 20:19:36 +0100 Message-ID: <002401bff283$448270a0$6b0bbed4@default> From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> References: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D310174592F@inchna.stir.ac.uk> Subject: Re: memes and sexuality Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:28:36 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 3:33 PM
Subject: RE: memes and sexuality
> Yesterday's Sunday Times had a brief article entitled 'Girl Talk: It's
> Really All In The Genes', available at-
>
> http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/07/16/sticoncon01001.html
>
> 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?
>
> The newspaper article itself is the usual example of silly journalism, by
> asking a TV presenter and a famous hairdresser's mother (I kid you not)
> 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?
<< Found the same article !! What a meme !!
<< Gender bias for memes, hm, very interesting_ I think its possible, like
the article suggets, woman are better in language, maybe their memes are
accordingly more ' evolved ', that is if problems rise, they try to reach an
agreement with words, we fight !! >>
Regards,
Kenneth
(I am, because we are)
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