j.wilkins1@uq.edu.au (John Wilkins)wrote:- Subject: Re: Culture is notconsciouslydeveloped? Q for Wilkins For a given value of s, the probability of fixation is approximately ... compared to another in which this process does not occur. A continual but just tiny bias produced...of Darwinian natural selection (say 0.01%%) DOES NOT CANCEL OUT like a random selective bias, ...
Guy A Hoelzer hoelzer@unr.edu wrote:- Subject: Re: Culture is notconsciouslydeveloped? Q for Wilkins Drift always happens in every population all of the time without exception. This is not an opinion, rather it is a necessary consequence of the ... all of the time without exception" and selection may not. However, unless Guy is prepared to say _why_ he may...
...the evolution of culture, that culture is consciouslydeveloped." Wilkins goes on explaining... stochastic sampling (drift) than biology. Not everything is or has to be selection. -- John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project ... that failed, unremarked. .... -- John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project ...
...evolution of culture, that culture is consciouslydeveloped." Wilkins goes on...to be selection. -- John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project...history had created civilization, that cultures "evolve" in broadly predictable fashion...top and place the other cultures of the world in a...century progressivist history. It is not, for example, to blithely predict...
... Carneiro's book "Evolutionism in Cultural Anthropology: A Critical History." I ... evolution of culture, that culture is consciouslydeveloped." Wilkins goes on ...theory, such as mutations are not random and correlating them with...stochastic sampling (drift) than biology. Not everything is or has to be selection. -- John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project...
... you guys maybe interested in John Wilkins', of Evolving Thoughts, review of Robert .... Carneiro's book "Evolutionism in Cultural Anthropology: A Critical History." I have... evolution of culture, that culture is consciouslydeveloped." Wilkins goes on ... theory, such as mutations are not random and correlating them with ... since the "entities of the [cultural] evolutionary process" are so limited....
...(evolution via random selection verified by a random pattern) is not relatively different to SOME thing (evolution via non random ... these components. JE:- "Flour" and "water" are simply not random and non random events but drift and selection, ... difference between nested and intersected sets of fitness and not myself. Regards, John Edser Independent Researcher edser@ozemail.com....
... other (e.g., drift). They are not opposites; rather they are complements. Alternative sides of a coin are not opposed to one another. They come ...your for your clear response. I do not agree that I am "misreading ... sides". It is also true that not everything that has two sides has ... verified by a random pattern) is not relatively different to SOME thing (...
...> 2) Nest sets. I'm not playing that game, John. JE:- ...an argument step by step is not game but refusing to do so... intersecting sets of fitness are not the same supposition as nested ... thing exists, it is simply not worth my while to do ... As things stand, I will not submit a paper for publication ... any scientific sense. Science (but not mathematics) remains ENTIRELY EMPIRICALLY based....
... Do you agree or disagree that "standard set-theoretic terminology" includes the following: 1) Intersecting sets 2) Nest sets. Regards, John Edser Independent Researcher I'm not playing that game, John. Yes, I have advocated step-by-step in the past. Now I'm advocating something different. You write it all down in one place and let people read it if they want ...
