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RE: Copyrighting schemas, Hailstorm (over the top and out of the topic- so much for coherence)
- From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>
- To: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@propylon.com>, XML DEV <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 15:57:42 -0500
Richard Dawkins: "The extended phenotype allows that cascade of causal
arrows to reach out beyond the body wall. Extended phenotypes are things
like birds' nests, or bower-bird bowers. A peacock has a tail with which it
woos females. A male bower bird builds a grass tail, a bower, in the bushes,
and dances around it, and that's what attracts the females. That bower made
of grass is performing exactly the same role as a peacock's tail. Genes that
make for a good bower, a pretty bower, get passed on to the next generation.
The bower is a phenotypic effect of genes. It's an extended phenotype."
So a bird in the bush is worth two in the hand?
Len
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard
Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sean McGrath [mailto:sean.mcgrath@propylon.com]
>[Len Bullard]
>Monkeys are free. It is the joy of the poverty
>of intelligence.
.. or madness.
"I'd rather stay here, with all the mad man, than perish
with the sad men roaming free." - David Bowie.