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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
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Subject: Re: Lame?  LAME???
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Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 18:18:25 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 11 18:18:25 1985
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> Of course, once an organism has developed sufficient social mechanisms
> to ensure that learned behavior (culture) can be passed to future
> generations by means of education, the whole problem becomes
> much more interesting.

Quite so.  And that puts a certain amount of pressure on the central
dogma, if it is alleged to be the sole or dominant mechanism of
evolutionary change.  (That's not to say that everyone does allege
this; it is certainly the case that its influence has been asserted to
be quite pervasive.)
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