From owner-metabolic-reg@net.bio.net Thu Sep 23 07:53:00 1999 Path: biosci!newshost.lanl.gov!awabi.library.ucla.edu!128.230.129.106!news.maxwell.syr.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!server1.netnews.ja.net!hgmp.mrc.ac.uk!biosci From: JHSH@LAND.SUN.AC.ZA ("Jannie Hofmeyr") Newsgroups: bionet.metabolic-reg Subject: Re: A literary discovery of import! Date: 23 Sep 1999 09:46:39 +0100 Organization: Stellenbosch University Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk 938076399 3227 193.62.192.80 (23 Sep 1999 08:46:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Sep 1999 08:46:39 GMT X-Received: from mail.sun.ac.za (mail.sun.ac.za [146.232.128.1]) by hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA22391 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:46:32 +0100 (BST) X-Received: from land.sun.ac.za ([146.232.216.2]) by mail.sun.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 11U4WG-0002Bg-00 for btk-mca@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 10:46:25 +0200 X-Received: from SUN_LAND/SpoolDir by land.sun.ac.za (Mercury 1.44); 23 Sep 99 10:45:26 +0200 X-Received: from SpoolDir by SUN_LAND (Mercury 1.44); 23 Sep 99 10:45:14 +0200 X-To: btk-mca@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk X-Reply-to: jhsh@mail.sun.ac.za X-Priority: normal X-In-reply-to: X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12) David and Douglas wrote > "You might have problems with copyright on the concept of > the general problem class, Jannie." > No question about that! Stuart Pimm used the metaphor for ecosystems > and Rick and I for anti-reductionism in Biology (attached). Ah, my (tongue-in-cheek) copyright claims are much more modest than to the concept of the general H-D problem class, where I quite clearly stand on the shoulders of giants. No, I claimed my rights to a meme: the closing lines that explained the Humpty- Dumpty problem. Thanks Douglas for your piece (which I shall now read as antidote to the flu that I am nursing). Jannie Prof. Jannie Hofmeyr Tel: +27 21 808 3039 Dept. of Biochemistry Fax: +27 21 808 3022 University of Stellenbosch e-mail: jhsh@maties.sun.ac.za Private Bag X1 Matieland 7602 Stellenbosch South Africa --- .