Talk:The Major Transitions in Evolution

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What is the purpose of this article? Shouldn't the information should be incorporated into the article on RNA world hypothesis ? and then this article deleted? DGG 23:29, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Why is there a link to a linguistics page? Perhaps a more scientific or descriptive term should be used to replace "universal grammar". Is this in reference to the genetic code? Mechanisms of gene regulation? Histone and/or DNA modification? The phrase is not widespread. It is ambiguous.

[edit] memes

Universal grammer is related to memes. It, and other social or intellectual breakthroughs, are postulated to be carried by memes. Memes is used here as used by the authors--this article is about their book. I do not know if most biologists consider meme a useful concept. I personally do not. I apologize for my edit to this page of 26 Sept. I did not at the time realize that this article was about a specific book. DGG 04:39, 11 October 2006 (UTC)