-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Miles Jackson Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 1:22 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Re: Instinct
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Arash wrote:
> Wrong, I'm not assuming every trait must benefit reproductive fitness,
they
> very well could be neutral to it, I am assuming that a trait that has a
net
> NEGATIVE EFFECT on reproductive fitness should fade out of the population
> over time.
Then you don't understand the theory of evolution or basic genetics. A good place to start if you're interesting in getting a handle on this stuff: Gould, Structure of evolutionary theory. You'll see why your common sense argument is baseless.
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