Some have doubted the attraction of the new york skyline *to anyone*. Just ran into this: http://www.atlassociety.org/atlas-shrugged-movie-atlas-society ... ...
... individuals, ... change in ... extra ... central mechanism by which biological adaptations evolve, according to neo-Darwinian theory of evolution as...
... But there is no kin selection, just as elephants' tusks did not evolve through piano-selection. While it is no accident that elephants' tusks came to be...
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W.Taylor@...
Jan 8, 2011 12:40 pm
... Nice one! ... Exactly so. And more generally, spread through the environment as a whole. So then I'm not altogether sure how this fits in... ... Can you...
... I'd think of the plumage of a peacock here. It increases the reproductive success and thus the spreading through the population. But other than for the...
... A simple example would be mice genes creating tons of mice that eat all the grass in a field (do mice eat grass? whatever) causing a famine. If it's a...
... through piano-selection. While it is no accident that elephants' tusks came to be useful for making pianos (the physical and chemical properties that make...
... No, it may or may not spread through the environment as a whole. Often evolution acts in the direction of specialising the organism, which often confines...
Hey everyone. I thought the members of this list might be interested in a new list I am starting, which is dedicated to discussing political issues from a...
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W.Taylor@...
Jan 9, 2011 12:04 pm
... And they might even cause world-wide mouse extinction. Yes, that is a good example (whether or not it's what DD intended). Though of course, we could...
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W.Taylor@...
Jan 9, 2011 12:25 pm
... Quite so! So this is an example of the original (unexcerpted) thing. It is a NON-example of what DD said, because it DOES increase gene survivability. I...
... population. ... whole. ... evolution acts in the direction of specialising the organism, which often confines the gene to a narrower range of environments...
... No it doesn't unless you define "survivability" to mean "replicates better than rival genes" (as Bill suggested doing). Which is not what the English word...
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W.Taylor@...
Jan 10, 2011 6:53 am
... OK, those are all good examples. But, as per my recent post, they are examples of LONG-TERM survivability or non-survivability. This is important for...
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W.Taylor@...
Jan 10, 2011 6:54 am
... OK, my turn to do a thought experiment! Let's bring up a small cluster of peafowl with shorter tails, extracted from the earth of a million years ago ...
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Ammon Johnson
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Jan 10, 2011 10:23 pm
... The problem with your definition of survivability is that it is not survivability. You're redefining words which as I recall you've made a great fuss...
... a ... Often ... Often ... harder ... own ... is ... that ... the ... better than rival genes" (as Bill suggested doing). Which is not what the English word...
... Right OK. It doesn't do that either. Evolution sometimes improves fitness and sometimes decreases fitness. An example is the peacock's tail. The peacock's...
there is a correlation btwn articles containing the string of letters "communi" and them being pro-communism. way more articles with that string of letters are...
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W.Taylor@...
Jan 11, 2011 6:58 am
... Let me just clear up a point possibly caused by my sloppiness. I assert, as does (I think) Dawkins, that evolution almost always acts to increase the...
... No, this whole thread has been about the fact that it isn't the most in "almost all" instances. It's almost never "the most" possible -- evolution does not...
... If 1% of articles with the string "communi" are pro-communist, then there is a 1% chance that a given article with that string will be pro-communist. The...
Here is one Correlation example frequently used by a criminology professor, at Florida State University, to show a spurious correlation. The amount of Ice...
... You really think it'd be a good idea to judge articles in that purely statistical way, instead of trying to understand what they are saying and *thinking*...
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Christopher Collins
ccollins@...
Jan 12, 2011 6:53 am
Elliot, I find your post interesting and confusing in equal degree for the following reasons. Please feel free to unpick my confusion in your own way, then...
... One of my favorites too. ... Nope not that. That is quite a big assumption. That Ngram stuff is cool but actually I just sorta noticed the words communism...
... Would I be right in supposing that murders are seasonal? I wonder why they would be. Maybe it's b/c people find the winter holidays depressing and...
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Ammon Johnson
ammon.johnson@...
Jan 12, 2011 11:15 pm
... So you admit you're redefining survivability. Why? Are you trying to make the misgnomer tagline "survival of the fittest" match reality? The fact is ...
... In the absence of other evidence I'd be stupid not to bet that your article was pro-communist. "Other evidence" would be reading the article and noting...
