Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id NAA16304 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 1 May 2001 13:46:33 +0100 From: "Lawrence DeBivort" <debivort@umd5.umd.edu> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: The Status of Memetics as a Science Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 08:07:00 -0400 Message-ID: <NEBBKOADILIOKGDJLPMAGENPCCAA.debivort@umd5.umd.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 In-Reply-To: <F208KgXhLy4WnQAn77f00001c7b@hotmail.com> Importance: Normal Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Holldobler and Wilson, ANTS, estimate that there are conservatively ten
thousand trillion ants, across 9,500 ant species, and that collectively
their mass approximates that of all humans.
- Lawrence
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Of Scott Chase
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 12:07 AM
If you want to use our ability to wreak havoc as a standard of dominance, I
guess you have a point there, though not one for us to be very proud about.
OTOH if dominance was indexed by sheer numbers within a species, would we be
the victors? I don't have any data on comparison of species (including
humans) as to total number of members now inhabiting Earth. Are we the most
numerous species on Earth? What about our collective biomass compared to
other species?
What about things which claim us as a habitat? We may dominate here and
there on the exterior, what what about our interiors?
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