memes and DNA
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watertankNew Scientist, 5 july 2003
p.20
Just once for Celtic.
By stealing tricks from evolutionary genetics, linguists have castnew light on how languages evolved in Europe. The suggest Celtic arrivde in Britain around 3200 BC in one wave, rather than two as widely thought.
To track the evolution of IndoEuropean languages, first spoken in Europe around 8100 BC, Peter Foster of the University of Cambridge and Alfred Toth of the University of new meixcio in Alb. chartd how a set of 35 words changed over time in bilingual Celtic-latin inscriptions from a range of regions (Procedings of the national Academy of Sciences, DOI:10.1073/pnas.1331158100) "We applied DNA analysis to laguage," says Porter.
Now, this is the first study that I've seen that might prove that memes, postulated by Dawkins exist, and moreover follow the pattern of DNA mutations.
Wow! I wonder if the guys who did the study actually thought about its implications.
p.20
Just once for Celtic.
By stealing tricks from evolutionary genetics, linguists have castnew light on how languages evolved in Europe. The suggest Celtic arrivde in Britain around 3200 BC in one wave, rather than two as widely thought.
To track the evolution of IndoEuropean languages, first spoken in Europe around 8100 BC, Peter Foster of the University of Cambridge and Alfred Toth of the University of new meixcio in Alb. chartd how a set of 35 words changed over time in bilingual Celtic-latin inscriptions from a range of regions (Procedings of the national Academy of Sciences, DOI:10.1073/pnas.1331158100) "We applied DNA analysis to laguage," says Porter.
Now, this is the first study that I've seen that might prove that memes, postulated by Dawkins exist, and moreover follow the pattern of DNA mutations.
Wow! I wonder if the guys who did the study actually thought about its implications.
