RE: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 15 2001 - 12:28:42 GMT

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    Hi Vincent Campbell -

    >how on
    >earth do we identify why 'play it again, sam' prospers rather than the
    >original line?

    The dissemination of ideas is one thing- the parsing and replication of
    catch phrases and fads and fashion, perhaps quite something else.

    This tether that is creativity is also tied up with gossip and all the
    other accoutrements of the daily life of homo sapiens.

    The name of the better mousetrap is not, after all, the trap itself.

    At least, not to the mouse....

    - Wade

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