From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Sep 23 1997 - 05:10:29 MDT
At 12:12 PM 9/22/97 +0200, Anders wrote:
>The market seems to evolve according to Lamarkian or super-Lamarkian
>principles: offsprings inherit acquired characteristics of their
>parents, and entities can change their own structure when they find
>a need for it. Very complex, I wonder what to call this kind of
>evolution?
As I might have suggested previously, there's already a word: `culture'.
Admittedly, this specialised aspect is already confounded with other layers
of meaning, so maybe we do need a new term.
Damien Broderick
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