Re: The status of Infertile forms ( was: What is the evolutionary



Hi John,

I have only one concern about these defintions of your jargon.

That is, I do as far as they directly "deny, "constitute a formulated fence
against", and "tend to fix the attitude of refusniks in respect of how to
(EPTly :) understand", my *key* explanatory categorization of
evolutionary/selective pressures. %-}

"John Edser" <edser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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2) Fitness: any defined reproductive total.

3) Dependent Darwinian Fitness: the fitness of any part which can be
measured as the fitness of any inner nested set.

4) Independent Darwinian Fitness: the fitness of any whole which can be
measured as the fitness of the largest set within any one nested set which
is always the most outer set. Empirically this is always the total number
of fertile forms reproduced by a parent into one population of same.

I hope you soon start to see that 'logical realism' requires you to accEPT
that what you should (implicitly) mean or (explicitly) write is something
along the lines of: "...populations of *presumptively/potentially fertile*
forms.


5) Darwinian Selectee: the one single entity which is naturally selected
in
Darwinian nature. Empirically this is always one fertile organism and not
one organism or any part of one organism e.g. one gene.

Again, you are likewise required to mean/write
"....*presumptively/potentially* fertile..."

<snipped - otherwise not entirely unaccEPTable defintions :->

Cheers!

P


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