@hbdchick @PoisonAero It's an extinct adaptation. And I thought we'd already shelved the disease thing. (Is cancer not pathological?)
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Replying to @Outsideness
@Outsideness we can't shelve the disease thing if you keep using the word pathological. (~_^) most cancers prolly are in part pathological.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@hbdchick Pathological =/= diseased. See #2 definition: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pathology …2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@hbdchick .. Still better line of confrontation, disease =/= infection, see basically anywhere. Wikipedia does fine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Outsideness right. but you're claiming that the AVERAGE, typical set of behaviors of nw euro pops is diseased or abnormal or pathological.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Outsideness no. not typically. that's just evolution by natural selection. nothing pathological (abnormal, diseased, etc.) about it.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@hbdchick@Outsideness The malaria parasite is a product of evolution. Does that mean that there's nothing pathological about malaria? No.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@PBarbicane altruism is a behavioral trait. plasmodium falciparum is an organism.@Outsideness2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@hbdchick @PBarbicane Is that supposed to push things all the way back to infection? Because if you're surrendering 'diseased', that's good.
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