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Douglas_Knight comments on When does heritable low fitness need to be explained? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 11 June 2015 12:51:16AM 0 points [-]

Sure, that's the punnet square. You should stop drawing punnet squares and ask yourself why you are drawing them and ask what role they play.

The number 1/4 is the empirical fitness. It is mainly about how many children dwarfs have. You cannot guess that number by looking at punnet squares.