@cicerone imposter,
"His head's in a shed" is a well known expression here ci. I used box because I thought you might not know it. Imagine a box with a hole in the bottom for you to stick your head in and all the interior surfaces are mirrors. That sort of box. You need one if those to Ignore the causality of Yinning. I thought it very direct.
It applies to the topic because it shows that in the box Yinning doesn't impinge on your notions of evulution just as it doesn't on the gold price. But the gold price is affected by other things than just Yinning but evolution is affected by nothing else. Hence "sexual selection". Which means that people reading your thoughts on evolution should take those considerations into account before taking any notice of them. Which those who also have Yinning on Ignore, which is about as ridiculous as it's possible to get intellectually, might well agree with you. And those who see Yinning as the central plank of evolution theory won't agree with you.
Public explanations having to restrict themselves to saying that there are "controversial issues" for rather obvious reasons. Yinning is only discussed when the port and cigars come out and the ladies adjourn to the outer sitting room. The problem most of the great novelists have wrestled with during our Enlightenment era. Some scientists too only instead of jokes they use complicated sentences that only the initiates can understand. Veblen combines both.
My education is not complete either. That's a very typical thing for oms to say. They must assume their own education is complete to say it insultingly. Probably, by the look of it, at an early age. As if there is something inferior about not have completed one's education.
Less poetic than "box" but none the worse for that. And that might explain why my posts make no sense. There might be fifty years since your education was completed and came to rest. I feel that I have hardly got started.
I meant that Dawkins has his head in a shed too. Except when he's pretending he isn't being Yinned. I don't think he could do what he does if he hadn't.