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From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: DNA Culture .... Trivia?
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> >From: Mark Mills <mmills@htcomp.net>
> >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> >Subject: Re: DNA Culture .... Trivia?
> >Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:58:17 -0600
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> >Wade,
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I just realized that with my "people don't replicate" comment, I was
not taking the gene's eye view. It is true that entire genomes do
not replicate sexually, due to the intermixing, but individual genes
do, just like, taking the meme's eye view, we may not replicate
another person's entire behavioral memeplex, but still pick up a
meme here or there.
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> >At 07:23 AM 1/17/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >>Are there any organisms that have memetic properties that don't use sex?
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> >Using the neural-meme paradigm, memes are possible once a neural system
> >exists.
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> >I don't know if there are examples of neural systems in organisms without
> >sexual reproduction systems. Maybe someone else here knows the answer.
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> Well there is a species of gecko which has a central nervous system, yet is
> parthenogenic. The species (Hemidactylus garnoti) is comprised of females
> which lay eggs without mating. I guess one could consider this a form of
> asexuality.
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> This species is invading Florida. I don't know if they have "memes", unless
> perhaps their little squeaky noises signify something like "me eat moth, not
> cricket, you eat moth too." Maybe they imitate eachother on lamppost hunting
> strategies and exchange notes on how to avoid inquisitive human herpers.
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> There are some populations of whiptail lizard (Cnemidophorus sp.) which are
> also parthenogenic. John Wilkins knows a lot about this stuff, so perhaps he
> can help edify us ;-)
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