John Edser wrote:
> Below is the key exchange sent Thu 22/01/2004
> that set up all subsequent discussion:
> 

> 
> 
> In our last exchange I wrote:
> 
> JE:- AGAIN, you have refused to answer
> the one question I keep asking you. This
> just increases the volume of evidence
> available  for anybody to judge a lack
> of integrity.
> 
> 
>  ___________________________________________
>  Do you agree that the use of Hamilton's
>  rule to support OFA after group selection
>  failed to do so, was a misuse of that rule?
> 
>  *please answer this question with a yes or no*
>  ____________________________________________
> 
> You replied:-
> 
>  BOH:-
>  I have answered this several times,
>  and see no point in repeating myself.
> 
>  JE:-
>  You have never answered it.
> 
> BOH:-
> See my post from the 26th of last month (the answer was given before
> then, but I must have sent it from another computer.  But here's what's
> in my files: JE:- Do you now conclude that Hamilton's
> rule has been misused to explain apparent OFM in nature? BOH:- No.
> 
> JE:-
> I repeat: BOH has never answered the question I asked.
> I asked: "Do you agree that the use of Hamilton's
> rule to support OFA after group selection
> failed to do so, was a misuse of that rule?"

My apologies, I missed the change from M to A.  My answer (as I would 
hope is obvious) is that I don't think it has been mis-used.

Bob

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