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Subject: Cultural r/k Selection question
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 97 19:26:39 -0000
From: Mark Mills <mmmills@OnRamp.NET>
To: memetics <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Agner,
In 'Cultural r/k Selection,' =
http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit/1997/vol1/fog_a.html, there is the =
following comment:
>I want to emphasize that the analogy between genetic
>and cultural selection cannot be used to prove anything
>about either mechanism - the differences between the
>two mechanisms are simply too big=A0(Boy &
>Richerson=A0[5], Daly=A0[9],=A0Fog=A0[14]) and the reader
>is warned against expecting too much from the apparent
>analogy between biological mechanisms and the cultural
>model presented below. The analogy may be useful as a
>source of inspiration, and should not be regarded as
>anything else here when I am introducing what I will call
>cultural r- and k-selection.
I don't have immediate access to these references. Can you provide a =
thumbnail sketch of the comments you refer to (Richerson, Daly and =
Fog)?
I am wondering if they reflect on the continuing dialog over 'memes =
as ideas' and 'memes as coded substrate.'
Thanks,
mark
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