📧 Communication

This document is a transcript of an intellectual debate (likely via email) regarding evolutionary biology, specifically focusing on natural selection vs. creationism and the validity of 'cultural group selection.' The primary contributors are 'pjr' (likely Peter J. Richerson), who defends cultural group selection and critiques the concept of an Omniscient Designer, and an unidentified respondent who expresses skepticism toward cultural selection while discussing economic analogies involving Adam Smith and Brian Mannix. The document includes references to prominent evolutionary anthropologists and biologists such as Richard Wrangham, Sarah Hrdy, and David Haig.