Why am I posting at 1 am? Get off my back!

"The explanation of heterozygote superiority in the case of sickle cell anemia is not a matter of people competing with each other in a great malaria tournament." - Daniel Dennett

I think I would like to observe this... Great Malaria Tournament.


Seriously though, this Dennett piece, replying to Fodor's frankly bizarre objections to the Theory of Natural Selection, is one of the snarkiest pieces of philosophy I've ever read.

Why am I reading it when it has nothing in the slightest to do with any kind of philosophy that I ever engage in? Get off my back!