A simple model/simulation for John Edser

William L Hunt

2014-03-08 03:24:54 UTC

Newsgroups: sci.bio.evolution
Subject: A simple model/simulation for John Edser
I am hoping for a response from Edser but anyone is welcome to respond.

JE:-
I will make a bargain with Dr Hunt, if he will respond to each of the numbered points I included in my last detailed reply then I will respond to his request to critique this detailed model.

AT various times in the past I have responded to all of your points. I do not want to rehash the
same arguments again.
As to the simple model I gave, I expect you had no intuition of why it gave the results it did and
you may have been quite baffled. If you were to make the effort to try to reason out why the tipping
point changed in the direction it did, you might be successful. And if you could do that you would
be halfway to understanding Inclusive Fitness and Hamilton's Rule. If you could reason out why the
change was in the in the amount it was, then you would just about there as that calculation required
Hamilton's Rule.
But I don't expect you will make any effort to reason out why this simple simulation gives the
results it does.
William L Hunt
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Post by John Edser
Regards,
John Edser
Independent Researcher