Re: Hamilton's rule



Tim Tyler tim@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:-
Catherine Woodgold <an588@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote or quoted:
> > Tim Tyler (tim@xxxxxxxxxxx) writes:
> > > Jim McGinn <jimmcginn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote or quoted:

> > >> You're saying a gene or even all genes are 100 base pair long? Why?
> > >> Why wouldn't a gene be 1 base pair long?

> > > Because it says otherwise in the dictionary; this is a matter of
> definition.

> > There is more than one way to define "gene". A definition
> > as one base pair can be a useful definition. One book I read
> > defined gene something like this: part of a genome.
> > Thus by that definition, a gene could be a collection of
> > bits of DNA (even on different chromosomes, I think)
> > that coded for a set of proteins that worked together
> > to produce some particular trait or behaviour. [...]

> It appears that you found an unorthodox definition of the term
> "gene", that contradicts much established usage in biology.
> Maybe McGinn has that book as well.

JE:-
Are you arguing that simply because this definition was "unorthodox" this
proves that it must be:

1) Wrong (misrepresented a refutable theory that remains non refuted)?

2) Obviously inferior (only represented a refuted theory)?

3) Was put about via some a crazy conspiracy (you wish to evade this issue
using mindless rhetoric)?


> Care to name and shame?

JE:-
The only "shame" here was Tim's futile attempt to misuse an argument from
authority in order to protect a concept that many others prefer, i.e. a
(protected) act of cultural group selection.


Regards,

John Edser
Independent Researcher

edser@xxxxxxxxxx





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