What role does eusocialism play in this discussion in general and as it
relates to group selection?
Sharif Branham
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Subject: Re: EVOLUTION Behavior Re: curren
For an very interesting portrayal of where we stand in the Age of Oil by
distinguished petroleum geologist Kennety Deffeyes, take a look at the
following web page:
http://www.princeton.edu/hubbert/current-events.html
As many know, this claim, if proved true over time, has profound
implications
"group selection doesn't exist at all in nature."
Taylor, D.R.; C. Zeyl and E. Cooke. 2002. Conflicting levels of selection in
the accumulation of mitochondrial defects in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PNAS.
99:3690-3694
If in one direction, why not another?
While Wynne-Edwards was arg
Well, good to see that some evolutionary biologists have started to clarify
what natural selection does or does not!
> All the clever joking, punning, and tongue-in-cheekin' aside,
> whilst you are quite correct to emphasize that "there is an
> important [flaw]" flowing through any logic that GE
Is anyone familar with this book mentioned below and
could provide a brief review? Even a thumbs up or
down would be helpful. Thanks in advance.
--- Jose Luis Alcantara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Coincidentally, I just got the following
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> Sampling R
Another wild card is the potential of future human cloning.
Like maybe 1,000 Albert Einstein's could be made to order..
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While I don't completely disagree with this posting emphasizing the
importance of random factors, I also want to echo an earlier posting about
reproductive fitness. We verge on embarrassing ourselves when we emphasize
"selection" as "survival"... this is a common misconception that ought to be
clea
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Maybe greater reproductive success. Or more importantly, enhanced reproductive
success of offspring.
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> > Perhaps human intelligence and humility will becom
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ECOLOG-L hit its daily maximum for messages yesterday, in part
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David Inouye
All:
I have responded in part to this contribution via that of D
Friends --
Over the past few decades, there has been a history of claimed sightings of
ivory-billed woodpeckers, and until the past couple of years, the sightings
for the most part have not been accepted as scientifically certain. This
changed, for better or worse, with the publication in the
Coincidentally, I just got the following recommendation from Amazon.com:
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>From a social science perspective and with regard to the hegemony of the
>"competition in natural selection" meme, I've found the following to be
>interesting, in the past.
Keller, Evelyn F. 1992. Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death: Essays on
Language, Gender and Science. New York, NY: Rou
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