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> Gene-environment interactions may also be precisely what memes are. No
> less, no more. Culture itself is a genetic interaction with the
> environment of nature and society.
>
> What else do we need to know, what other entities do we need to create?
> Memes are handy statistical referents in this scenario, but, they need
> only to be column headings in a categorization scheme.
Well, ish, but it's a bit general. I mean, everything is a
genotype/environment interaction, but I still think that a slightly more
fine-grained analysis has value.
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