Re: Challenges for Evolutionary Ethics

From: Elie Gendloff (gendloff_at_optonline.net)
Date: 10/04/04 

Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 16:34:48 +0000 (UTC)

Thats exactly my point. Sickle cell continues where malaria is
present because it is the same trait, even though sickle cell is
disadvantageous evolutionarily, because malaria resistance is more
advantageous than sickle cell is disadvantageous.

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 22:16:00 +0000 (UTC), "Reason" <Landrew@iaf.net>
wrote:

>
>"Elie Gendloff" <gendloff@optonline.net> wrote in message
>news:cjntlg$1mbn$1@darwin.ediacara.org...
>> Could altuism be not necessarily advantageous, but is "carried along"
>> or inseperable from another trait, such as the ability to plan ahead,
>> or something else? To use a loose analogy, the sickle cell trait is
>> inseperable from malaria resistance, so it continues.
>
>Sickle-cell anemia IS the malaria resistence trait.
>