Subject: Re: A Drosophila for cultural evolution
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 97 11:42:48 -0400
From: Wade "T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: memetics <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>, virus <virus@lucifer.com>
>>>What can serve as a Drosophila for the study of cultural evolution?
OK- I've been thinking about this.
And I think I've got it.
So sit down....
The answer to life, the universe, and everything is- Toilet training.
Stop laughing.
There is ample anthropological and ethnographic data, there is a clear
primate evolutionary path, there is a clear pan-cultural incidence, and
it is even experimentally testable.
Any takers?
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