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Taking a page from biology's r-strategy, one may reasonably presume that greater dissemination yields, on average and over the long run, greater memetic success.
Archive 2006-09-01 2006
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Taking a page from biology's r-strategy, one may reasonably presume that greater dissemination yields, on average and over the long run, greater memetic success.
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In a desperate attempt to get some science benefit out of this thread :) is it valid to say that the male/female distinction is in a sense a within-species partition between an r-strategy (males produce very large numbers of gametes investing minimally in the development of each one) and a K-strategy (females produce relatively fewer, larger, egg cells, each of which gets much more resources than an individual sperm cell does)?
Just when you thought it was safe to go in the water again ... - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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