Re: Issues: A Question Of Integrity (was: Issues)


Perplexed in Peoria wrote:


> Now lets look at that word "diagnose". You say that Hamilton's rule
> is used to "diagnose" when an "altruistic" gene will spread. But
> most people would have said "predict". The rule "predicts" that
> a gene will spread if "rb>c". You "diagnose" whether a gene has
> actually spread either directly by measuring an increase in the
> frequency of the gene in the population, or indirectly by measuring
> an increase in the frequency of the behavior in the population, or
> VERY indirectly by noticing that the behavior is common in the
> population and hence must have spread sometime in the past.


Properly, Hamilton's rule is a statement about how *selection* operates
on social traits. Consider an altruism gene at mutation-selection
balance with its deleterious allele, for example.


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