William Morse  wrote

> WM:-
> The further problem with absolute fitness is that it has very little
> value as a metric. One can hope to measure relative fitness over a
> limited number of generations in the laboratory, and one can guesstimate
> it over a larger number of generations in the field, but measuring
> absolute fitness would require absolute knowledge - otherwise one is only
> really measuring relative fitness.

JE:-
I have no idea what you are talking about.
Please define both absolute and relative
fitness and explain how you measure them.

Regards,

John Edser
Independent Researcher

PO Box 266
Church Pt
NSW 2105
Australia

edser{at}tpg.com.au
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