Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id XAA02969 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 9 Feb 2001 23:41:52 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.240.220.143] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 18:39:13 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F865wsbpD6xURPrSzpp0000e524@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Feb 2001 23:39:14.0060 (UTC) FILETIME=[828064C0:01C092F1] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: "memetics list" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Subject: Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution
>Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 21:21:18 -0500
>
>Hi Bill Spight -
>
> >"Play it, Sam, for old times'
> >sake," is altered by the environment to "Play it again, Sam," and the
> >alteration is passed on. That's Lamarckian evolution.
>
>Or "Play it, Sam" becomes "Play it again, Sam" because forces from the
>environment gave it no other choice.
>
>Lamarck didn't have a thing to do with it. There were no necks straining
>to reach the treetops.
>
>
Someone like Piaget might assert that behavior can lead evolutionary change.
Not quite going all the way to Lamarck, yet not quite orthodox (or correct)
either. Piaget seemed to walk a razor's edge between Darwinism and
Lamarckism from my recollection.
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