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John Edser
Guest
Lilith wrote:-
Parker, Joel D. "A major evolutionary transition to more than two
Abstract: Two recently discovered cases of genetic caste determination in social insects might
provide the first example of a major evolutionary
system can be interpreted as comprising primarily individuals
the perspective of demographic extinction. Additionally, I show how this mating system can be
seen as a major evolutionary transition. For these populations, it is apparent that the mechanism
for a three- or
arrangements of chromosomes within individuals, but at the next level of evolutionary complexity,
with the arrangement of chromosomes among individuals within a social system.
JE:- Here the nest is acting like one Darwinian organism. However a eusocial nest is NOT an
association of _fertile_ forms, which is what would be required for the nest to be validly regarded
as one group of Darwinian selectees, it is an association of _infertile_ sterile casts that mostly
remain infertile but can become fertile as and when required to act as normal immature
reproductives. No group selection or selfish geneism is evident.
Quote: " * A mating system that evolved twice through hybridization in the seed harvester ant
Pogonomymrmex, where queens must mate with two distinct types of male to produce a colony with both
sterile workers and fertile females, can be considered a sytem with more than two
JE:- The mating of Hymenoptera Queens with more than just one male has been known for a long time.
This simple fact refutes Hamilton’s claim that their unique haplodiploid system evolved via organism
fitness altruism (OFA) using Hamilton’s rule.
Fisher’s model was a massive oversimplification that was misused by Hamilton to allow an
independent gene level of selection to be able to contest and win against Darwinian theory
providing OFA in nature. OFA refutes Darwinian’s fertile organism level of selection when observed
within nature. In reality fertile organism fitness mutualism (OFM) is _alone_, verified within
nature which varifies Darwin’s fertile organism level of selection as the only level of selection
that exists within nature.
Quote:
* Any colony that makes a fertile queen must haev at least three parents, or be descendent from
three distinct and seperate types of gamete.
* Four seperate types of gamete must be maintained in the population or the population will
become extinct.
* The system constitutes a major evolutionary transition under the criteria of Szathmary and
Maynard SMith.
hybridization fo two previously autonomous social insect populations.
order of organization of genetic information within a social population."
JE:- One nest is the equivalent to one _fertile_ organism. No group selection or selfish geneism is
required or observed.
Quote: "If a queen mates by chance exclusively with males from the opposite gene pool, she can only
make workers and parthenogenically produced haploid males. However, the colonies that produce both
males and females, which can be considered hermaphrodites, require three gametic types (sperm from
the yellow and blue gene pools and egg from the queen; Box 1, Figure I). The male gamete from the
opposite gene pool is directed to the soma, or body of the colony (i.e. the workers) whereas the
male gamete from the same gene pool as the queen contruibutes to the female reproductives. The third
gamete type is then the egg of the queen. Only colonies that are descended from this union of the
three gametic types can produce viable female
hermaphroditic individuals and can only result from the contribution of three different types of
gamete and have a minimium of three parents when selfing is excluded, thus satisfying the functional
JE:- Each nest, like one Darwinian selectee
The Neo Darwinists have made a terrible error allocating fitness to sterile forms and then
employing Hamilton’s selfish geneism to allow the evolution of OFA, when no *INDEPENDENT* fitness
existed within these sterile forms to be given away, in the first place. This error is the ongoing
error of chronic simplified model misuse within Neo Darwinism. This topic is all but banned from
general discussion. The epistemology of Neo Darwinism remains in chaos as indifference to model
misuse, reigns.
Many thanks to Lilith,
John Edser Independent Researcher
PO Box 266 Church Pt NSW 2105 Australia
[email protected]
Parker, Joel D. "A major evolutionary transition to more than two
Abstract: Two recently discovered cases of genetic caste determination in social insects might
provide the first example of a major evolutionary
system can be interpreted as comprising primarily individuals
the perspective of demographic extinction. Additionally, I show how this mating system can be
seen as a major evolutionary transition. For these populations, it is apparent that the mechanism
for a three- or
arrangements of chromosomes within individuals, but at the next level of evolutionary complexity,
with the arrangement of chromosomes among individuals within a social system.
JE:- Here the nest is acting like one Darwinian organism. However a eusocial nest is NOT an
association of _fertile_ forms, which is what would be required for the nest to be validly regarded
as one group of Darwinian selectees, it is an association of _infertile_ sterile casts that mostly
remain infertile but can become fertile as and when required to act as normal immature
reproductives. No group selection or selfish geneism is evident.
Quote: " * A mating system that evolved twice through hybridization in the seed harvester ant
Pogonomymrmex, where queens must mate with two distinct types of male to produce a colony with both
sterile workers and fertile females, can be considered a sytem with more than two
JE:- The mating of Hymenoptera Queens with more than just one male has been known for a long time.
This simple fact refutes Hamilton’s claim that their unique haplodiploid system evolved via organism
fitness altruism (OFA) using Hamilton’s rule.
Fisher’s model was a massive oversimplification that was misused by Hamilton to allow an
independent gene level of selection to be able to contest and win against Darwinian theory
providing OFA in nature. OFA refutes Darwinian’s fertile organism level of selection when observed
within nature. In reality fertile organism fitness mutualism (OFM) is _alone_, verified within
nature which varifies Darwin’s fertile organism level of selection as the only level of selection
that exists within nature.
Quote:
* Any colony that makes a fertile queen must haev at least three parents, or be descendent from
three distinct and seperate types of gamete.
* Four seperate types of gamete must be maintained in the population or the population will
become extinct.
* The system constitutes a major evolutionary transition under the criteria of Szathmary and
Maynard SMith.
hybridization fo two previously autonomous social insect populations.
order of organization of genetic information within a social population."
JE:- One nest is the equivalent to one _fertile_ organism. No group selection or selfish geneism is
required or observed.
Quote: "If a queen mates by chance exclusively with males from the opposite gene pool, she can only
make workers and parthenogenically produced haploid males. However, the colonies that produce both
males and females, which can be considered hermaphrodites, require three gametic types (sperm from
the yellow and blue gene pools and egg from the queen; Box 1, Figure I). The male gamete from the
opposite gene pool is directed to the soma, or body of the colony (i.e. the workers) whereas the
male gamete from the same gene pool as the queen contruibutes to the female reproductives. The third
gamete type is then the egg of the queen. Only colonies that are descended from this union of the
three gametic types can produce viable female
hermaphroditic individuals and can only result from the contribution of three different types of
gamete and have a minimium of three parents when selfing is excluded, thus satisfying the functional
JE:- Each nest, like one Darwinian selectee
The Neo Darwinists have made a terrible error allocating fitness to sterile forms and then
employing Hamilton’s selfish geneism to allow the evolution of OFA, when no *INDEPENDENT* fitness
existed within these sterile forms to be given away, in the first place. This error is the ongoing
error of chronic simplified model misuse within Neo Darwinism. This topic is all but banned from
general discussion. The epistemology of Neo Darwinism remains in chaos as indifference to model
misuse, reigns.
Many thanks to Lilith,
John Edser Independent Researcher
PO Box 266 Church Pt NSW 2105 Australia
[email protected]