[lit-ideas] Re: Do the fittest survive? Not necessarily
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:15:36 -0400
Robert,
Doesn't a lot of that discussion parallel the debate about Gould and
Lewontin's spandrels <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_(biology)>?
John
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Eric wrote
>
> Reminds me of that "I would die for one brother or eight second cousins"
> quip. Game theory and kinship.
>
>
> A link to a review of *What Darwin Got Wrong* by Jerry Fodor and Massimo
> Piattelli-Palmarini, in the* London Review of Books,* with a subsequent
> change of letters.
>
>
> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n13/peter-godfrey-smith/it-got-eaten
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>
> Robert Paul,
> less fit but surviving for now
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