Re: memes and dancing

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Wed, 22 Dec 1999 20:21:31 -0500

Subject: Re: memes and dancing
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 20:21:31 -0500
From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
To: "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>

>Genetics explains dancing (i.e.: bodies moving to the music). But memetics
>is required to explain the Foxtrot, Po-go, Swing, Waltz, or a mosh-pit.

And you may as well be saying that genetics explains language, but
memetics explains French. I don't buy it.

- Wade

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