andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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> Yes, there are refinements, but that's the core of it.
> I wasn't, however, going into all the refinements.
> The fine-tuned definition of reproductive success
> wasn't my topic. I was just pointed out that there is
> plausible SB explanation
You have just repeated the phrase that more than anything else throws doubt on the whole SB project, "plausible explanation." That is precisely the trouble, that the whole edifice rests on mere plausibility, or as Gould and others labelled them, Just-So Stories.
Carrol