RE: Less genes than expected

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Feb 13 2001 - 08:45:58 GMT

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From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
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Subject: RE: Less genes than expected
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:45:58 -0000
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    > >> In the UK, reporting said much the same, but on a TV news interview
    > john
    > >> shulston said that the fact that there are fewere genes that thought a
    > few
    > >> years ago doesn't change the basic notion that both nature and nuture
    > are
    > >> important.
    >
    > < I agree with this, Vincent, but you have to agree with the fact, from a
    > meme- eye- view ( and I don 't mean here Blackmore 's stance) that now
    > memetics in general is of a greater importance than it used to be,
    > don 't you !?
    > Now memes as pieces of information strike another part of the balance.
    > You do see that, don 't you !?
    > And I equally agree with Jess Tauber post, a lot is still open to
    > debate...
    > I suggest we begin immediately...>
    >
            Well Kenneth, again I don't disagree with the importance of nuture,
    but I do disagree that the number of genes automatically gives nuture, and
    thus memes, a higher status.

            It will no be intriguing, for example, to see how searches for the
    biological basis of intelligence are now undertaken. There has to be a
    biological, i.e. genetic, basis for things like intelligence, self-awareness
    etc. but now we know they must emerge from the interaction of far fewer
    genes than thought a few years ago.

            Vincent

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