Joe Felsenstein wrote:
> In article ,
> Jim McGinn  wrote:
> 

> Thank you for verifying that your argument is merely simply a wholesale
> rejection of all evolutionary genetics models.  Not some specific fault in the
> kin selection argument.  That Hamilton was just exactly as much a fool as
> were Fisher, Wright, Haldane, Kimura, Crow, Lewontin, Maynard Smith,
> Robertson, Cavalli-Sforza, Nei, Hill, Karlin, Ohta, Slatkin, Gillespie, Lande,
> Feldman, the Charlesworths, Wen-Hsiung Li and the rest of us.  I have met and
> known all the folks in that list (except Fisher) and to me they seemed like 
> nobody's fools.
> 
> The audience to this exchange (if any) can take their pick between the
> great McGinn and his conclusion that all their models were wrong and all
> their derivations are refuted, and that list of all these other folks who made
> the models and drew many conclusions from them.  There's little doubt which way
> people will go on that.   I'm happy to leave it there.
> 
Some wise words from another one of Fisher's students:

"All models are wrong, but some are useful"
      - G.E.P. Box

Something which should be acceptable for any pragamatist.

Bob

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