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To: porcupine --''''> who wrote (819)	9/27/1998 12:43:00 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (2) of 1722

>if 10% of a band of monkeys learn a particular skill the entire monkey population instantly acquires the skill even those who have never seen it performed, etc.<< I heard a similar story about blue birds on a philosophy special on PBS. Supposedly, a small group of bluebirds (in Europe I believe) learned how to get the cream out of the top of the bottles of milk that were delivered by the milkman. Due to War, there was an interruption to milk delivery across the continent. The interruption lasted long enough so that the entire bluebird population that learned the trick was long dead by the time delivery was restored. When it was restored, the entire population of blue birds across Europe knew the same trick even though none were alive at the time it was learned. Many were in places that were too distant for the original tricksters to have traveled so there was no direct genetic link for passing the knowledge. This sort of stuff has all kinds of implications.

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