:: However, as someone who speaks something on the order of one-and-a-half languages ( English fluently and Hebrew very badly ), I would be interested to know if other languages have any peculiarities in this regard-- i . e ., observably moving away from formal, tightly structured speech, to looser, more flexible types of communication . contribs ) 05 : 15, 29 May 2012 ( UTC)
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Judith Anderson said his work was based on statistically flawed evidence, John Archer and others said that Rushton failed to understand and misapplied the theory of kin selection, Judith Economos said he was speculative and failed to define the concept of altruistic behavior in a way that it can become manifest and failed to show any plausible mechanism by which members of a species can detect the " altruism gene " in other members of the species, and Steven Gangestad criticized the theory for not being compelling in terms of its attractiveness as an explanatory model, C . R . Hallpike said Rushton's theory failed to take into account that many other traits, ranging from age, sex, social and political group membership, are observably more important in predicting altruistic behavior between non-kin than genetic similarity, and John Hartung criticized him for failing to conduct an adequate control group study and for ignoring contradictory evidence.
