John Edser wrote:

>>JE:-
>>Hamilton refutes Darwin.
>>Within Hamilton's rule absolute Darwinian fitness
>>can be selected to be lowered producing OFA.
> 
> 
> JM:-
> That didn't quite answer the question that I meant to ask.  Le me try
> to stretch your answer to cover what I intended, and you can tell me
> whether I got it right:
> Absolute fitness is the cause and "evolution" is the effect.  I am
> assuming that "evolution", in this context, means something like a
> change in genotype frequencies or a change in phenotype frequencies.
> 
> JE:-
> Absolute parental fitness is the most distal cause of evolution,
> i.e. its most BASIC cause. 

Ah, but what causes parental fitness?

Bob

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