KMO wrote:
>I'd highly recommend that you read "The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific
>Expedition Into the Forces of History" by Howard Bloom. In terms of
>readability, it's much better than anything Dawkins has written with the
>possible exception of "River Out of Eden." In it, Bloom makes a very
>good case for group competition and selection. Bloom theorizes that
>memes were originally an epigenetic marker that allowed people with
>common genes to identify one another and allow human superorganisms to
>maintain coheasiveness in the absence of clearly identifiable physical
>markers of genetic identity.
You know, I've been meaning to read that book for a very long time now, but unfortunately I am literally up to my eyeballs in required literature as usual. Will it never end? Some day....Well anyway, thanks for the explanation.
~kjs