Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id WAA02512 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 3 Jul 2001 22:08:28 +0100 From: <joedees@bellsouth.net> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 16:11:34 -0500 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: Quoted-printable Subject: Re: sexual selection and memes Message-ID: <3B41EEB6.1738.1F589C@localhost> In-reply-to: <3B41E34B.2474F002@bioinf.man.ac.uk> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On 3 Jul 2001, at 16:22, Chris Taylor wrote:
> joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
> >
> > On 2 Jul 2001, at 10:18, Chris Taylor wrote:
> >
> > > I think because memes are not bound by having to produce two sexes
> > > in the way that genes are, it is much simpler for them to
> > > specialise to only be 'fit' in a male (or to only be noticeably
> > > expressed in a male, which I think is your point Vincent).
> > >
> > Genes can do that - or have we all forgotten male pattern baldness?
>
> Well yeah, and genitals, but the point is that all these genes have to
> survive being in a female as well as a male at some point - there has
> to be a (switching) mechanism to take account of their presence. What
> I'm on about is the possibility of direct inheritance (vertical or
> horizontal) from male to male (or female to female) without any
> account being taken of the existence (if you like) of the opposite
> gender. For example (in humans) there are many views, held by one
> gender (or at least parts of it), of the opposite sex, which simply
> could not survive in the context of the other sex's mind - all women
> are X, all men are Y etc.
>
It goes without saying that all genes tranmitted to only one of the
two sexes would have to be found on their differential genes - the
male Y or the female second X. Do we have any examples of
same, where one sex does not latently carry genes that are only
expressed in the other?
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