Re: [FRIAM] Daphnia's jeans

2011-02-06 Thread Carl Tollander
[mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Parks, Raymond Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 10:18 AM To: 'friam@redfish.com' Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Daphnia's jeans   That raises a number

Re: [FRIAM] Daphnia's jeans

2011-02-05 Thread Vladimyr Burachynsky
] On Behalf Of Jochen Fromm Sent: February-04-11 3:25 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Daphnia's jeans How many memes does a mind have? What would be needed to reconstruct a mind? -J. FRIAM

[FRIAM] Daphnia's jeans

2011-02-04 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Message: 2 From: National Science Foundation Update nsf-upd...@nsf.gov Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 14:47:36 -0600 (CST) Subject: The Most Genes in an Animal? Tiny Crustacean Holds the Record The Most Genes in an Animal? Tiny Crustacean Holds the Record

Re: [FRIAM] Daphnia's jeans

2011-02-04 Thread ERIC P. CHARLES
Fascinating! Does this take us arrogant human's down a notch? I must object though to the conclusion that the water flee has the most genes, followed almost immediately by the admission that we don't know much about the genome of most organisms. Why can't they just say The most gene of any known

Re: [FRIAM] Daphnia's jeans

2011-02-04 Thread Parks, Raymond
: Friday, February 04, 2011 08:33 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group friam@redfish.com Subject: [FRIAM] Daphnia's jeans Message: 2 From: National Science Foundation Update nsf-upd...@nsf.govmailto:nsf-upd...@nsf.gov Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 14:47:36 -0600 (CST) Subject

Re: [FRIAM] Daphnia's jeans

2011-02-04 Thread Jochen Fromm
How many memes does a mind have? What would be needed to reconstruct a mind? -J. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at

Re: [FRIAM] Daphnia's jeans

2011-02-04 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 10:18 AM To: 'friam@redfish.com' Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Daphnia's jeans That raises a number of interesting questions. 1. Is there more survival advantage in a higher number of genes or in a lower number of genes? On the one hand Daphnia has a 50% greater chance

Re: [FRIAM] Daphnia's jeans

2011-02-04 Thread Eric Smith
I should be quiet because this is not my area. But the evo-devo people around me seem very often to say that, in the domain of large multicellular organisms, much of the change between species comes from altering regulatory pathways and systems, not generally from altering (numbers of) genes, or

Re: [FRIAM] Daphnia's jeans

2011-02-04 Thread lrudolph
On 4 Feb 2011 at 14:33, Nicholas Thompson wrote: I bet you somebody will post something in the next day claiming that humans have fewer genes because they have a larger brain instead. As the saying goes, what counts isn't the size of your genome, it's how you use it. To a first order