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- From: mls@panix.com (Michael Siemon)
- Subject: Re: Gould versus Dawkins
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- Summary: note
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- References: <1i3ctlINN91f@agate.berkeley.edu> <1993Jan2.065434.23370@news.media.mit.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:30:10 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan2.065434.23370@news.media.mit.edu> minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes:
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- >I don't think this makes sense, at least for anyone who has read
- >Dawkins' book, The Extended Phenotype -- because Dawkins would be the
- >first to agree that it is not at all a matter of "simple summations".
-
- I would note that _The Extended Phenotype_ opens with a preface in
- which Dawkins is at pains to deny/disclaim meaning what many readers
- (both careful and careless, biologically educated and generalists)
- have read _The Selfish Gene_ to mean (and which is the target of
- Gould's animus in the review.) Given the crude way in which one
- sees Dawkins clever phrases used on the net, I am with Gould in my
- animus, even though much of TEP (and indeed TSG, when rendered of
- its rather high polemic content) has interesting and intelligent
- things to say. I think that Dawkins is either disingenuous or a
- totally negligent author.
- --
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