dbd%benden@LANL.GOV (Dan Davison) (04/27/89)
[This message was sent directly to me but was meant for the list. This is his second try-can someone help? -- dbd] I am forwarding this again hoping for a response. I was interested to read the comments in this posting and would like to access previous listings. Our news is not fully supported. I would appreciate a copy of the proceedings to date if that's possible. [I will send him the archive-server help message -- dbd] My interest arises from similar frustrations with the small data base:big evolutionary paradigm discussion direction that researchers publishing sequence data fall into. Lambert and Hughes (1988) discuss the problem from a different perspective. The language used and the authority given to words with ambiguous meaning, such as function and adaptation, in molecular evolution discussion offers, insight as to its worth. There is a lot of useless speculation filling space in sequence papers. Lambert & Hughes is in J. theor. Biol.(1988) 133,133-145. Keywords and concepts in structuralist and functionalist biology. bthill@ac.dal.ca Brian Hill Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada.