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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Lame?  LAME???
Message-ID: <464@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 14:47:44 EST
Article-I.D.: cybvax0.464
Posted: Fri Apr 12 14:47:44 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 14-Apr-85 06:38:38 EST
References: <1576@decwrl.UUCP> <1454@hao.UUCP>
Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Organization: Cybermation, Inc., Cambridge, MA
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Summary: 

In article <1454@hao.UUCP> ward@hao.UUCP (Mike Ward) writes:
> > It is not at all clear how BEHAVIOR in individuals or even groups brings about
> > 'changes' in the body.  Changes that can be passed on to future generations!
> 
> The idea that behavior can be a survival trait that is passed along
> to one's progeny stems from the assumption that, in "animals",
> behavior is genetically endowed instinct.  Thus, it is the changes
> in the body that bring about the behavior, not the other way
> around.

Actually, the changes in behavior can then select for new changes in the body.

> This assumption has in no way been proven, and if untrue makes
> the behavior-as-survival-trait idea a lot harder to swallow.

Not true.  Quite a number of genes controlling behavior have been
identified, mostly in Drosophila.
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh