This presentation is a good source for the inclusive fitness side of the debate. It’s by Stuart West, evolutionary biologist at Oxford.
In the talk, West, a proponent of inclusive fitness, says:
[There’s] also the general point of [...] Occams Razor: If we can explain everything more generally without it, what use is it?
This debate is making me boggle. Both sides seem to claim that their theory is more general than the other, and that therefore by Occams Razor we should eliminate the other theory.
This presentation is a good source for the inclusive fitness side of the debate. It’s by Stuart West, evolutionary biologist at Oxford.
In the talk, West, a proponent of inclusive fitness, says:
This debate is making me boggle. Both sides seem to claim that their theory is more general than the other, and that therefore by Occams Razor we should eliminate the other theory.