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Thread #117973   Message #2549488
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
26-Jan-09 - 12:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: Brits on Titanic die of niceness
Subject: RE: BS: Brits on Titanic die of niceness
GUEST,Heric, said in part:

He may well still believe that he could show, with superior test design, that cultural aspects of British behavior disproportionately affected results that would have been predicted by population biologists, or somehow became a relevant factor enhancing or diminishing theoretical predictions from Darwinian modeling at the group level.

Huh? What in the world is meant here by "theoretical predictions from Darwinian modeling"?

From my reading of Darwin I've not seen anything he said about a model from which theoretical predictions of social behavior could be made.

If I'm wrong, please educate me.

Dave Oesterreich