Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 19:09:23 GMT

  • Next message: Robin Faichney: "Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution"

    Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id TAA09280 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 5 Feb 2001 19:05:50 GMT
    From: <joedees@bellsouth.net>
    To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 13:09:23 -0600
    Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
    Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
    Subject: Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution
    Message-ID: <3A7EA603.31823.9B413A@localhost>
    In-reply-to: <3A7EEF3A.4CC798F7@pacbell.net>
    X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c)
    Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk
    Precedence: bulk
    Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    

    On 5 Feb 2001, at 10:21, Bill Spight wrote:

    > Dear Joe,
    >
    > > memetic evolution being
    > > any more robust than genetic evolution (and it must be, to
    > > supercede it)
    >
    > Clarification, please. :-) What do you mean by "robust"? And how do
    > you think memetic evolution supercedes genetic evolution?
    >
    > Many thanks,
    >
    > Bill
    >
    Compare the increases in human capacities over the past 50k
    years with those of the 2mil preceding, and I think that it will
    become clear.
    >
    > ===============================================================
    > This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the
    > Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
    > For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing)
    > see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit
    >
    >

    ===============================================================
    This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the
    Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
    For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing)
    see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Feb 05 2001 - 19:07:46 GMT