timtyler comments on "Sex Is Always Well Worth Its Two-Fold Cost" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 15 July 2009 10:26:15PM -1 points [-]

I may have cited multiple definitions of evolution - but it was not to point out the differences between them. It was to pile on evidence from a range of sources.

I don't agree with your statements about the role of parent and offspring in cultural evolution. Nor - as far as I am aware - does anyone else in the field. Parent and offspring share heritable Shannon mutual information. The parent is the source of the information, and the offspring copies from it.