Re: The Anti Science Art Of Evasion


"John Edser" <edser@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote
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> JE. Nothing I have written here is original IMO. It most certainly isn't
> unconventional.
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One of your arguments was that, if we have a number of alleles that
contribute to an atruistic trait, such that ABCD is altrusitic whilst abcd,
aBCD and all the other contributions are non-altrusitic, then for the
purposes of Hamilton's rule the behaviour will only spread if the benefit is
greater than r^4 times cost.
(I know that there are other issues concerned with the units in which b and
c are measured, which I haven't taken on board fully just yet).

Now I haven't heard this from anyone else. In fact it would be nice if
undergraduates challenged lecturers with similar objections more often at
our university. One person was teaching evolutionary psychology as an
established truth (which is his right, and I would happen to agree with the
conclusions but not the presentation) and despite the existence of a
discussion board not one student took him to task. Very disappointing.

Where did you get the idea from?



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