Re: Reviews of Unto Others

From: Perplexed in Peoria (jimmenegay_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:50:32 +0000 (UTC)

"John Edser" <edser@tpg.com.au> wrote in message news:ce8ibf$301d$1@darwin.ediacara.org...
> > > > > JE:-
> > > > > Please provide just a single example of
> > > > > a biological term that I am defining
> > > > > differently to everybody else.
>
> > > > JM:-
> > > > I don't need to provide an example. I have provided an experiment.

> JE:-
> Please provide your example
> or retract the accusation.

Here are four examples of terms you define differently than everyone else:

* Absolute fitness
* Relative fitness
* altruism
* mutualism

Of these, I don't consider the first to be particularly
significant in support of my claim, since you are suggesting
what you believe to be an improved definition. But in the
other three cases, it is clear from your own words in this thread
that you are using the words differently than everyone else, that
you don't understand how those words are used by everyone else,
and that your criticism of the logic and epistemology of everyone
else is based upon your misunderstanding of what everyone else
is saying.

I am also very annoyed that you have ignored the fact that I DID
provide an example of a term that you are defining differently in
the post to which you are replying. I said that "relative fitness"
is such an example. But you snipped this from my reply.

Do you really believe that you are fooling anyone with this behavior?

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Darwin, Kant, and Hamilton
    ... >> Selection, ... of relative vs. absolute fitness costs is an important one to resolve. ... Let's take a closer look at the relative fitness model when relative fitness ... true whether selection is pushing the population to extinction or not. ...
    (sci.bio.evolution)
  • Re: Reviews of Unto Others
    ... Disagree. ... yet you seem to not even understand what relative fitness means, ... Altruism is positive c and positive b. ... I have defined two different measures of absolute fitness ...
    (sci.bio.evolution)
  • Re: Absolute or just relative fitness?
    ... > assuming that growing populations will always run into resource limitation ... > relative fitness compared with absolute fitness. ... Just as a racing car driver is limited ...
    (sci.bio.evolution)
  • Re: Absolute or just relative fitness?
    ... > competition, which elevates the importance of relative fitness ... > by changing absolute fitness tallies, but I don't find that argument ... > deep understanding of how evolution works. ...
    (sci.bio.evolution)
  • Re: Absolute or just relative fitness?
    ... through social and ecological interactions such as competition. ... relative fitness compared with absolute fitness. ... deep understanding of how evolution works. ...
    (sci.bio.evolution)