Re: Whales and the Memetic Group definitions

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Fri, 1 Oct 1999 01:57:07 -0700

From: "Tim Rhodes" <proftim@speakeasy.org>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Whales and the Memetic Group definitions
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 01:57:07 -0700

Wade wrote:

>My rationale here is- if birdsong is memetic, then the term is
>meaningless- birdsong to me is totally behavioral and innate- the bird
>'has-to' do it.

Birdsong is not memetic--bird songs, however, are.

-Tim

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