Since Just Science starts next week I'm going to have to take a break from Stephen Jay Gould blogging due to the constraints that I'm going to have to adhere to when it comes to posts (i.e., it has to be science). Expect blogging to focus on chapters from W. D. Hamilton Narrow Roads of Gene Land, Volume 1: Evolution of Social Behaviour. You know about kin selection, but do you know kin selection?
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Just noticed that Nature's Oracle: A Life of W. D. Hamilton is finally out. I haven't read it yet, but will have soon once my copy arrives. If you don't know who W. D. Hamilton is, you know his work. Hamilton's early theoretical papers on the evolution of sociality (e.g., kin selection) were the…
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Chapters read:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.
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I stated earlier this week that I would post on papers from William D. Hamilton's Narrow Roads of Gene Land. I've narrowed down which ones I'll blog:
Day 1: The genetical evolution of social behaviour. I
Day 2: The genetical evolution of social behaviour. II
Day 3: The moulding of senescence by…
I'm going to have to take a break from Stephen Jay Gould blogging due to the constraints that I'm going to have to adhere to when it comes to posts (i.e., it has to be science).
LOL! I always maintained that Gould wasn't science :)