memetic or genetic laziness

From: Brent Silby (phil066@it.canterbury.ac.nz)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 23:08:23 BST

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Subject: memetic or genetic laziness
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    >It's totally and completely and only laziness, Tim.
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    >- Wade (who is prone, he admits)

    I am interested in whether traits such as laziness are memetic or genetic.
    Our ancestors might have had some survival difficulties if laziness was a
    biologically endowed trait, so I think it might be a socially acquired
    behavior. But where would such a behavior have its origin?

    Brent.

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