Re: Hamilton's rule




> > > "Jim McGinn" <jimmcginn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in

> > Oh -- so a functional unit is the entire genome? To you,
> > a "gene" is the collection of all the chromosomes?
> >
> > (Obviously, a single chromosome, or part of one, in isolation without
> > the rest of the organism can't do anything useful and
> > can't be a functional unit.)

> Seems obvious to me also. It also seems obvious to me that anybody
> that would present such an argument is doing so based on desperation
> and general ignorance.

JE:-
A more exact description would be: a misused heuristic. Heuristic exercises
such as Hamilton's Rule have a use and a misuse. I have been attempting to
raise discussion on both for nearly 5 years. Nobody will respond. Gene
centric Neo Darwinists always maintain without any discussion that:

1) No difference exists between a heuristic and an empirical event.
2) Heuristic events cannot be misused to misrepresent empirical events.

Regards,

John Edser
Independent Researcher

edser@xxxxxxxxxx





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