It would be ironic if BAP was a joke that killed the non-ironic dissident right.
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"The mechanism of heredity [.....] ...is a tautology: yes, only those animals who have managed to reproduce actually pass on their traits. Something every sheep breeder in history has known. But that this alone explains animal adaptation or behaviour is nonsense"
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Adaptationist explanations that cannot be independently verified are just-so stories.
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What is your bar for independent verification in the context of natural history?
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An observation that disconfirms that trait X is a byproduct.
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Why is byproduct the default assumption?
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Adaptations are selected for whereas byproducts are selected. Both contribute to fitness so you can't say which it was.
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His views are similar to Gromov's
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