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.
December 13th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
hahahaha!
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.