Dear Members of the Local Congregation,
Today I "offered" to the group the idea that Natural Selection could not function unless the genetic/developmental system was "fair" and was properly challenged on the meaning of the term, "fair." With a lot help from my friends, it became clear that all I could possibly mean was that natural selection could not proceed unless there was a correlation between parents and offspring in the possession of traits. So "fairness" must to refer to whatever it is that has, in the history of evolution, made it possible for children to resemble their parents. The argument was laid out in a proposal I made to a colleague for a joint paper, which, however, never was written. I attach the proposal, an abstract of the paper I hoped we'ld write. Thanks for your patience, everybody. Nick
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