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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 9 Dec 2012

    Oy vey! Freeman Dyson pronounces individual selection to be “fashionable dogma” « Jerry Coyne in Why Evolution Is Truehttp://bit.ly/QRE6MT 

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      1. Chad English‏ @Chad_English 10 Dec 2012
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        @sapinker My rebuttal of Dyson: http://adnausi.ca/post/37612919387 …. Bad argument for group selection and bad game theory. PD does explain punishment.

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      1. richard parker‏ @mrrichardparker 9 Dec 2012
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        @sapinker I am sick and tired of this debate.

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      1. Nicholas A. Christakis‏ @NAChristakis 9 Dec 2012
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        @sapinker @Evolutionistrue the same Dyson who denies global warming, or am I bungling that?

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      1. Timothy‏ @timothygmd 9 Dec 2012
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        @sapinker @Evolutionistrue - so is relativity.

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      1. TakingHayekSeriously‏ @FriedrichHayek 9 Dec 2012
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        @sapinker The differential selection of desiderata for theory choice via the diferential selection of community members http://hayekcenter.org/ransompapers/Thomas_Kuhn_and_Membership_Selection.html …

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      1. TakingHayekSeriously‏ @FriedrichHayek 9 Dec 2012
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        @sapinker Symbiotically adapted species are likely to have a differential advantage with nearly identical rival species in the same niche.

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      1. TakingHayekSeriously‏ @FriedrichHayek 9 Dec 2012
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        @sapinker Individual selection can lead to symbiosis between species, it can also lead to symbiosis within a species.

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      1. TakingHayekSeriously‏ @FriedrichHayek 9 Dec 2012
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        @sapinker Fish populations which have evolved schooling via individual selection may replace fish populations which don't school.

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      1. TakingHayekSeriously‏ @FriedrichHayek 9 Dec 2012
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        @sapinker If group manifested properties -schooling- can be selected for via individual selection then populations may differentialy survive

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      2. TakingHayekSeriously‏ @FriedrichHayek 9 Dec 2012
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        @sapinker Selection over individuals for properties manifested at group level can filter for practices ie Kuhn & Hayek http://hayekcenter.org/ransompapers/Thomas_Kuhn_and_Membership_Selection.html …

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      3. Ryan Murphy‏ @ryanhmurphy 9 Dec 2012
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        @FriedrichHayek Pinker trashes cultural selection pages 208-10 of How the Mind Works. Mentions Lamarck, but not Hayek.

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      4. TakingHayekSeriously‏ @FriedrichHayek 9 Dec 2012
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        @increasingmu The causal mechanism is always incompetently botched. It's not easy to get right, but lack if competence is no argument.

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      1. TakingHayekSeriously‏ @FriedrichHayek 9 Dec 2012
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        @sapinker What can exist is selection over individuals displaying for properties manifested at the group level - http://hayekcenter.org/ransompapers/Thomas_Kuhn_and_Membership_Selection.html …

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