Message-Id: <199706201050.GAA26824@brickbat9.mindspring.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 06:54:44 -0500
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: bbenzon@mindspring.com (Bill Benzon)
Subject: Re: Genetic fundamentalism. Was: Lynch on some taboo
Mario says,
>Explaining the success of religions, because they offer genetic
>advantage to an individual or a population is really not what memetics
>are about.
>The same is true for explaining taboos or any other meme.
>
Yes. Culture is a different domain from the living world. Culture depends
on biology, of course (a culture with no living "hosts" is at a dead end),
but its dynamics are largely independent of biological evolution in humans.
William L. Benzon 201.217.1010
708 Jersey Ave. Apt. 2A bbenzon@mindspring.com
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