Re: What is R (relatedness) Suppose to Represent in Hamilton's Model

From: Anon. (bob.ohara_at_NOSPAM.helsinki.fi)
Date: 12/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 05:39:47 +0000 (UTC)

Jim McGinn wrote:
> Anon. wrote:
>
>>Jim McGinn wrote:
>>
>>>Anon. wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I've no idea what Jim is trying to achieve
>>>>here:
>>>
>>>
>>>This is what I was trying to achieve:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>. . . using relatedness to measure the degree
>>>>to which the phenotype of one individual can
>>>>be predicted from that in another, . . .
>>>
>>>
>>>You just blew it, Bob. It's plainly demonstrable
>>>(provable) that relatedness does not measure the
>>>degree to which the phenotype of one individual
>>>can be predicted from that in another.
>>
>>Yes. That was my point.
>
>
> It was your intention to be wrong?
>
No, I have never stated that relatedness was a measure of phenotypic
similarity. I think you're imagining things.

Bob 

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