Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 09 2001 - 02:14:49 GMT

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    Hi Scott Chase -

    >Chopping tails off rodents is quite convincing, enough to extend across the
    >whole of nature.

    But no offspring will have shortened tails....

    Although rodents with shorter tails may be less annoyed by tail-choppers,
    and thus have more potential survivability....

    I remain unconvinced of any lamarckian processes in nature.

    - Wade

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