================== HES POSTING ====================== An account of the error made in the attempt to identify relative adaptedness with any particular variable, e.g. height, strength, fecundity, or energetic efficiency is found in Robert Brandon, " "Adaptation and Evolutionary Theory", _Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science_, 9: 181-155. See also Alexander Rosenberg, "The Supervenience of Biological Concepts", _Phil. of Science_, 45: 358-386 (both dated 1978), Alexander Rosenberg, _The Structure of Biological Science_, Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1985, and Robert Brandon, _Adaptation and Environment_, Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1990. Greg Ransom Dept. of Philosophy UC-Riverside [log in to unmask] http://members.gnn.com/logosapien/ransom.htm ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]