Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 11:11:27 +1000 (EST)
From: Chris Cleirigh <cleirig@speech.usyd.edu.au>
Message-Id: <199706060111.LAA06663@fortis.speech.usyd.edu.au>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Lamarckism
Richard Brodie wrote:
>Didn't I recently read somewhere that the human immune
>system evolves in a Lamarckian way?
Didn't Gerald Edelman win the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
for proving the opposite: that the immune system evolves in somatic time
through Darwinian selection?
Chris
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