Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution

From: Kenneth Van Oost (Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be)
Date: Sun Feb 18 2001 - 11:53:51 GMT

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Subject: Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net>
    To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 7:49 PM
    Subject: Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution

    Hi Bill,
    You wrote,

    > Thus, the phenotype-genotype distinction you make does not serve the
    > same purpose in memetics as the similar distinction does in genetics.
    > That is why the Darwinian model for genetics does not hold in memetics.

    << Just for the record here. What you are saying I try, not with those
    words I presume, to defend. From in the beginning, and a while before,
    when I heard about the concept of memetics for the first time, that was
    my idea too. We have to abandon Darwinian- like models to explore
    memetics. Maybe there is one, but it ain 't certainly not like the one used
    in genetics.
    Therefor, and maybe because I do not know anything better, I did con-
    centrate myself on Lamarckism. And that, IMO seems to works better.

    Best,

    Kenneth

    ( I am, because we are)

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