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- adjective Describing any form of
heredity that does not involvegenetics
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As long as human communication is dominated by the written and spoken word, a distributed intelligence like The Dood will probably be the ultimate in extragenetic memory storage -- an authentic momument to humanity.
Archive 2006-08-01 Mac 2006
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This increase in computer use is but the latest in a long line of extragenetic adaptation that has included the use of fire, the wheel, and cities.
Outsourcing Game Playing Erik Stolterman 2005
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Even if the answer to that question is a "yes", the next question is more provocative to me -Is the degree of communion on areas such as cognition and communication making this extragenetic adaptation distinctive from other inventions such as bricks and mortar, possibly making this new human behavior a shift analogous with the domestication of animals?
Outsourcing Game Playing Erik Stolterman 2005
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