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Re: Warning EVOLUTION Discussed!
Steve Mizrach (SEEKER1@NERVM.NERDC.UFL.EDU)
Mon, 28 Feb 1994 00:42:02 -0500
>No, selection does not select FOR pet rock owners. They simply exist!
>It's like mutation theory in synthetic evolution. Pet rock owners can
>puke and die for all I care.
Ah, but here's the rub. See, you took my bait. Please tell me how "pet rock
owners" differ from "rock owners." (I am getting at something here.)
>Actually, thinking about it, it would probably be best for us all if they
>did...
Please, there were far worse offenses against good taste committed in the
1970s, for this one to be singled out...
>Read anything by Stephen Jay Gould. Or, ah, there is a book that is just
>called EVOLUTION, I will have to check the author's name...
I have read Gould, I have read Dawkins, and I have read other books on
evolution. If this one has any new insights, please let me know.
>Actually, the genetic model for culture is kind of weird. It seems to
>fit, but of course, culture, being a manifestation of evolution akin to a
>specific animal trait, like wings or claws, was not intended to be
>described by gross evolution. It just seems like a logical model...
This is why I prefer the memetic model to the genetic model.
>Remember this about natural selection, Seeker1: Not all mutations survive.
Ah, but if you're a SubGenius, you know that on occasion the Mutants
overwhelm the Normals. "If you haven't been there, I can't tell you how to
get there. But if you *have* been there, I can tell you how to stay there."
-- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, High Epopt of the Church of SubGenius
>EJ
Seeker1 [@Nervm.Nerdc.Ufl.Edu] (real info available on request)
Anthropomorphist, Metanoid, Lerian, MatrixWanderer, HyperRealist, etc.
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Michael Bishop, the Secret Ascension
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