Re: Joel and Bryant /talk/ about Antlers and Culture

Bryant (mycol1@unm.edu)
22 Aug 1996 14:13:02 -0600

In article <lpiotrow.362.321B52BD@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
Len Piotrowski <lpiotrow@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> wrote:

>Question: If Gould and Lewontin are creating only imaginary adaptionists, how
>do you reconcile such explanations for "orgasm" and " having a lot of kids"
>with non-functional arguments?
>
>Cheers,
>--Lenny__

Why would I need to? As I made clear in the parts you quoted from my
posts, evolutionists treat "function" as "evolved/adapted to do..." That
evolutionists suspect function for the female orgasm does not well
illustrate Gould & Lewontin's contention that evolutionists see naive
function in *everything.*

Bryant