Re: Hamilton's rule in small population



"JoeSixPack" olegp@xxxxxxxxx wrote:-
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> The problem with disproving Hamilton's Rule is that the same arguments
> would
> also disprove symbiosis and the existence of social animals like bees and
> termites.

JE:-
You cannot refute a tautology. All of them remain 100% refutation proofed so
they are mostly the first choice of the prejudiced and/or those mentally
challenged in rational thought. The cost of refutation proofing a favorite
idea by tautology, no matter if it is "god", "witches", "intelligent
design", "any form of racialism", "random evolution" or the evolution of
conditional altruism employing Hamilton's Rule is: now your favorite
argument can explain absolutely nothing at all on an _empirical_ basis.
Everything has a cost, even tautologies, whenever they are misused to obtain
something for nothing e.g. Hamilton's Rule.

Regards,

John Edser
Independent Researcher

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