Re: Fwd: Did language drive society or vice versa?

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Wed May 10 2000 - 13:52:55 BST

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    On 05/10/00 02:41, Chuck Palson said this-

    >I am sure that Wilson at least would definitely not agree with this
    >statement,
    >nor would a lot of other students of evolution. The gross application of
    >statistics that allows people to come up with the "anything is possible" is
    >usually just a conceptual stopgap.

    Ah, well, I totally agree, in fact, almost the same phrases were gelling
    for my reply. The very word 'improbable' is not really part of Wilson's
    lexicon. And, no, he is not a statistician, which is where 'improbable'
    was invented.

    Because, whatever is left, is true....

    - Wade

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