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Unenlightening Simile of the Day

The rejection of group selection in the 1960s was based on three arguments, like the legs of a stool [...]

David Sloan Wilson and Edward O. Wilson, “Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiology”, in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 82, No. 4, December 2007, p. 331.

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2 Responses to “Unenlightening Simile of the Day”

  1. I. C. Says:
    December 13th, 2007 at 7:03 pm

    hahahaha!

  2. purrsikat Says:
    January 7th, 2008 at 11:34 pm

    I must be dense.

    A stool with 3 legs is more stable than a stool with 4, in design/engineering terms.. so.. in a really strange sense.. it’s not totally & completely unenlightening. If you’re a designer.

    Perhaps.

    Ah..Hm.

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