Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id MAA14107 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 6 Feb 2001 12:58:52 GMT Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745C3E@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Evolution of ontogeny Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 12:57:55 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
<As I wrote in a previous mail, we are in the era of sconomic
> stratification. >
>
You'll have to more specific as to what you mean. Outside, perhaps,
of our time as hunter-gatherers, humans have been part of socio-economically
stratified societies, at least since the first large scale farming
communities emerged, which would take us back archeologically to at least
5000 years before the present, some 200 generations or so.
<So instead of dying people with unfavourable
> charecteristics go down in the socioeconomic ladder. And favourable
> charecteristics move up the ladder. >
>
Well, I don't want to be facetious, but there's no immortality
today, and, again, how does one define favourable and unfavourable genetic
characteristics in purely socio-economic terms? Intellect isn't enough
(compare academics' salaries to sports stars'- oh, I should say I'm speaking
more here about football in the UK, rather than US sports which retain the
illusion of education through their stars going through college).
Vincent
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