Sociolbiology Again (Was Re: [lbo-talk] Language of Contempt)

Gar Lipow the.typo.boy at gmail.com
Mon Jun 5 10:55:22 PDT 2006


On 6/5/06, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Some great proportion of evo bio necessarily consists
> of just so stories. That doesn't mean they are bad,
> just that you have to be modest about putting them
> forth.
>
>
> --- joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>

I think the key is if you are putting forward a just-so story you need to not only admit but to provide strong signals that is what it is. Perhaps all just-so stories on this list should be put forward as fiction. Or in rhymed couplets. Or in the form of nude interpretative dance.



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