Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id TAA12367 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:51:41 GMT Message-ID: <001b01c09532$0a77ca20$6b0bbed4@default> From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> References: <001501c09465$7fff0100$800cbed4@default> <3A880CD0.6C5C9337@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: Fewer genes than expected Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 21:24:47 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
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From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: Fewer genes than expected
> Dear Kenneth,
>
> Here is a quote from the Nature article (Vol. 409, p. 901), on
> www.nature.com.
>
> > The human thus appears to have only about twice as many genes
> > as worm or fly. However, human genes differ in important respects
> > from those in worm and fly. They are spread out over much larger
> > regions of genomic DNA, and they are used to construct more
> > alternative transcripts. This may result in perhaps five times as many
> > primary protein products in the human as in the worm or fly.
>
> IOW, gene number is only a gross estimate of phenotypic complexity.
<< I agree, but than again, think about the possibilities which do present
them here before our eyes !!
Think, try to comprehend what kind of alternative transcripts we are tal-
king about here !! All kinds of possible memetical transcriptions and as
a consequence all kinds of ( memetical) behaviour is changed is favor of
its own existence. Environment/ learning processes/ thought/ having ideas/
culture/...is far more important than we ever could suspect.
Think about this in favor of memetics. We are left here with an enormous
task...we have IMO to look at memetics, from now on, from a complete
different angle. Memes are not holding culture on a leach, they " are "
in a sense ' culture '.
This is IMO the major scientific breakthrough as a memetisist where I was
waiting for.
This is Waaaaauw !!
Best,
Kenneth
( I am, because we are) I don 't know what to say....
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