Re: Who knew genes could get mean?

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    Wade said...

    > 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.
    >
    > As for teaching old dogs new tricks- well- the child is father to the man.

    Just to corkscrew the conversation with a circular paradox...

    Somewhere from the start of the bible...."In the beginning, there was
    the WORD, and the WORD created man"

    Word created man, man is son of child, child learns words???

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