Re: NS and AaD curves



William Morse wdmorse@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:-
> "g" <gillawton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in

> > "Anon." <bob.ohara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message.

> >> That would be a change in the environment: fitness is defined to be
> >> specific to an environment. If the environment changes, so does
> >> fitness.

> > Something's missing here, because the ratio of Bs to bs is conserved
> > -- unless there is another rule (or several more rules) in the
> > ontology.
> > Let me write down statements, as you give them to me, so I can arrive
> > at the meaning of 'fitness'. I am not arguing here -- just trying to
> > understand the ontology:
> > Statement One -- Fitness is the mathematical odds of a gene's being
> > passed on from a parent to an offspring.

> No, fitness is the expected odds of an offspring with a given gene
> surviving, given the expected environment. As Bob noted, fitness is
> specific to an environment. Which means you should rethink the following
> statement:

JE:-
Bill is not correct. Quite clearly, for any gene to be able to be replicated
into just one other body reproduced by that parent, the parent's body that
contained this gene must have survived sufficiently for this reproductive
act to have taken place. Also, very clearly, if a gene is never ever
replicated into another body via a heuristically immortal parent then that
gene remains selected against compared to any short lived parent that
actually reproduces it. This argument concludes itself with the simple
statement that any parent that can live sufficiently to maximally reproduce
this gene into it's own offspring's bodies where these offspring remain
capable of acting on an inherited potential to do exactly the same (the
offspring are fertile and not sterile) then the parent that reproduces the
largest TOTAL of these offspring into one population will allow that gene to
be selected FOR within that population. ONLY the TOTAL number of FERTILE
forms reproduced into ONE population can be MAXIMISED by each parent within
NATURE and NOT how long each parent lives.


Regards,

John Edser
Independent Researcher

edser@xxxxxxxxxx





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