Developing story: Steve Gould's friend says Gould would never have signed NCSE's "Steve" list

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Louise M. Freeman, PhD
Psychology Dept
Mary Baldwin College
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Ted Davis" <tdavis@messiah.edu>
To: <amblema@bama.ua.edu>, <asa@calvin.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:50:12 -0400
Subject: Re: Developing story: Steve Gould's friend says Gould would never have signed NCSE's "Steve" list

> David writes of sexual selection as if it were not subsumed under
> natural
> selection. I would have agreed with David's implicit separation of
> those
> two forces, except that when I submitted my article on the 1920s to
> American
> Scientist, one of their scientific editors told me to change some of my
> wording, wording that treated sexual selection as a separate force from
> natural selection--it's an aspect of natural selection, not a separate
> factor, is what their in house "expert" told me. Not being a
> biologist, I
> simply accepted this point and made the change.
>
> What is the actual situation? Does NS embrace sexual selection as a
> subset, as it were?
>
> ted
>
Received on Tue Oct 25 21:39:06 2005