Re: virus: Re: Rationality (meme make-up)

jonesr@gatwick.geco-prakla.slb.com
Tue, 18 Mar 97 09:40:06 GMT


Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:

> Regardless of the fuzzyness of both concepts, their effects are
> quite obviously real; blue-eyed parents do in fact wind up with blue-
> eyed children,

I'm sorry to confuse matters, but this isn't entirely true. It's perfectly
possible for two white sheep to give birth to a black sheep. I've got
haircolour that hasn't been seen in my family for at least 4 generations
(no comments about the milkman, please - it's been done to death already).
It's all to do with dominant genes and recessive genes, and all that stuff
which I don't really understand, 'cos I slept through biology (well, I
had a Bio teacher who made sex education boring!)

> and French children wind up with French accents.

They wouldn't if they were taken from their parents at birth, and
raised by parents with a different accent.#

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