Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id FAA21945 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 17 Jan 2001 05:57:01 GMT Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010116233907.01f04b00@pop3.htcomp.net> X-Sender: mmills@pop3.htcomp.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:47:09 -0600 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk From: Mark Mills <mmills@htcomp.net> Subject: Re: DNA Culture .... Trivia? In-Reply-To: <20010116143750.AAA13645@camailp.harvard.edu@[204.96.32.170 ]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Wade,
At 09:39 AM 1/16/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm still concerned, vis a vis genetic/memetic analogs, that sex ain't
>been analogued memetically as well, because, well, dammit, that _is_ the
>genetic passage. What is sexual to memetics?
Most genetic replication is mitosis (division), not meiosis (sexual).
Additionally, there are some organisms that can do both.
Sex is just one way to get the job done.
Mark
http://www.htcomp.net/markmills
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