"Trivers" -- whoever he was -- once when someone asked explicitly denied
that he was -the- Robert L. Trivers, so beware. For the real Robert L.
Triver's sake, I pray our poster was telling the truth. Given our poster's
repeated and bizarre comments, I think he was just some anonymous, smart,
but even more smart-aleck, molecular biologist abusively playing with those
silly enough to interact with him here.
I'm no MB -- I can't evaluate his competence in that area -- but he
certainly didn't act in the least "distinguished" in any general sense.
I've never read more superfluously degrading or abusive posts on this
list -- almost unstable-sounding. There are plenty of smart molecular
biologists around, and his abuse added nothing. Whoever that person was,
it's good for us that he's moved on. If the list misses the (sometimes
vanishingly small, sometimes not) intellectual component of his input, and
perhaps it should, then it must seek it elsewhere.
--John
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> How sad it is that Glenn drove perhaps one of the most distinguished
> evolutionary scientists (Trivers) off the list. Although Trivers wasn't
> very nice he was correct in his assessments. In particular -- Trivers
> assertion that species arise from populations and not from individuals.
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