Re: What is R (relatedness) Suppose to Represent in

From: John Edser (edser_at_tpg.com.au)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:13:13 +0000 (UTC)

"Perplexed in Peoria" <jimmenegay@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>> JE:_
>> [snip]
>> Within Hamilton’s Rule rb has all the
>> “inherited” but (Fisher) defined “non heritable”
>> epistatic information deleted within rb
>> whereas c includes ALL of it.
>> [snip]

>JM:-
>I don't see this at all. John, could you explain what you mean
>by "epistatic information", how it can be inherited, and how "c"
>has it but "rb" does not.

JE:-
Epistatic information is the information
produced via parental genomic gene associations.
Epistasis requires a minimum of two parental
loci. In Hamilton's Rule c represents the cost
of b in normal, i.e. Darwinian fertile
organism units. Therefore all the heritable
epistatic information that is possible
using sex where n loci are inherited
after a meiotic reduction of 2n loci
must be contained within the cost c.
However Hamilton's competitor rb, only
refers to just the one locus. It ignores
all the others by definition. Thus all
epistatic information that is heritable
via n parental genomic loci has been
deleted by definition within Hamilton's
rb. Thus rb cannot be validly compared
to c within any science of biology.

Regards,

John Edser
Independent Researcher

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