User talk:DwightRead

hi diwght,

i cannot judge the paper you cite (will read it later), however, you should consider editing the "unit of selection" entry so that your usage is congruent with what the entry says so that others can understand. (the "unit of selection" entry may not be great though).

however, if your definition is not that of elliot's sober's as presented in his book "the nature of selection", or an even better definition, it is highly unlikely that you are using the unit of selection term correctly. in that case maybe you could rephrase things to avoid the term and instead say explicitly what you mean? sorry about this but it's all for the sake of (causal) clarity :)

best

marcos

p.s. i'd be oh so happy if you were right about the rule, but do you really think that ant societies did not evolve via kin "selection"? :O

Ok -- I reworded the text and removed the reference to "unit of selection". Ant societies evolved via biological kin selection. Williams' article only deals with populations in which all males and females mate and produce progeny for the next generation, so his results do not apply to social insects. DwightRead 02:45, 3 March 2006 (UTC)