Guy Hoelzer 

> > PS:-
> > In other words fitness is not a property of individuals ?

> GH:-
> Of course.  I don't know of any claim to the contrary. 

JE:-
Incorrect.
Total Darwinian fitness which at the gene level represents
just one epistatic fitness which remains the only scientific
concept of fitness within evolutionary theory
because it can be tested to refutation. I have 
outlined an experiment (not just a model) that can 
do so. Total Darwinian fitness is: the total number of
fertile forms reproduced into one population by
a parent. It is finite and not infinite and is
calculated as an _independent_ parental fitness.
Of course none of this matters because Dr Hoelzer
has thrown out the Popperian process of refutation
for his own convenience.

Regards,

John Edser
Independent Researcher

PO Box 266
Church Pt
NSW 2105
Australia

edser{at}tpg.com.au
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