In my ambition to stimulate discussion, I fear some posts have been accepted which perhaps should not have been. To be more specific, the thread on the evolution of intelligence initiated by Ben Balzer has been too speculative in tone for this forum. To avoid this escalating into something that could harm the general tone of this list, no further posts in that thread will be published. If anyone has any suggestions where that discussion could continue, I will forward them to the list.

These problems have been caused by too much permissiveness on my part. 
I hope all of you will have patience with my first fumbling steps as moderator.

Regards,
Dan Petersson
Moderator