RE: Who knew genes could get mean?

From: Gatherer, D. (Derek) (D.Gatherer@organon.nhe.akzonobel.nl)
Date: Thu Dec 21 2000 - 12:39:30 GMT

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From: "Gatherer, D. (Derek)" <D.Gatherer@organon.nhe.akzonobel.nl>
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    Wade:
    And every infant is a rewrite, and every child's development contains a
    blank slate.... If memetics works in any arena, it is there, surrounding
    the child, as it grows.

    Derek:
    A cultural blank slate, but not quite Locke's original 'tabula rasa' which
    was supposed to be a blank state from every point of view. Leonard
    Bernstein used to say he believed in the perfectability of mankind (okay he
    was a conductor not a psychologist, but when you're that famous people
    listen to your opinion on all kinds of things). Some liberal intellectuals
    do seem to cling to that Lockean Enlightenment view, but unfortunately I'm
    too steeped in sociobiology.

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