Re: virus: Dawkins Controversy.

David McFadzean (dbm@merak.com)
Mon, 29 May 1995 09:48:41 -0600

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At 12:06 PM 5/28/95 -0600, Duane Daniel Hewitt wrote:
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>Please excuse my ignorance but could somebody inform me as to the
>"controversy" over Dawkins' work that is mentioned on the Hyper Weirdness
>page on memetics.

The controversy revolved around the strawman argument of genetic
determinism which, of course, Dawkins never advocated.

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