TheAncientGeek comments on Reductionist research strategies and their biases - LessWrong

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 07 February 2015 08:29:19AM *  -1 points [-]

Fitness treated as a property of phenotype (or even of genes) rather than as a property of phenotype and environment.

Example here

Comment author: alienist 08 February 2015 02:48:35AM 5 points [-]

I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean that there are conditions under which being sexually attracted to members of the same sex is evolutionarily advantageous?

Or do you mean that the genetic trait that manifests as homosexuality, manifests as another, advantageous, trait under some circumstances? If so, this seems like a version of Darreact's "imprinting" theory.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 08 February 2015 11:53:54AM -2 points [-]

Not disadvantageous just means not disadvantageous.