Blueprints and recipes
Greg Mayer has a post on preformationism and epigenesis on the Why Evolution Is True blog:“Development is epigenetic”.
All posts tagged with information theory
Gleick interview on information
The Guardian has an interview with James Gleick about his new book, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. The book focuses in part on Claude Shannon...
Bitwise consciousness
Carl Zimmer writes about theories of consciousness in today’s Science NY Times, and describes the work of my Wisconsin colleague, Giulio Tononi.
Mutual information between strings of loci
Fourth in a series on mutual information and genetic linkage. If you’re happening upon it for the first time, you can find the entire s...
When genetic drift reduces entropy
This is the third in a series on information theory and tests for recent selection. The first post, “Information theory: a short ...
Kulturkreise of the Paleolithic Era
I’m reading through the English translation of The Culture Historical Method of Ethnology by Wilhelm Schmidt – one of the practitioners of the Vienna School ...
Julian Steward and the logic of diffusion
I’ve had a tremendous response to the last entry in the diffusion series, which discussed the treatment of cultural diffusion by the Boasian school. I really...
Information theory and mutual information between genetic loci
This is the second in a series on information theory and tests for recent selection. The first entry, "Information theory: a short introduction" reviewed the...
Information theory: a short introduction
I lectured this week in my Biology of Mind course about information theory, and in particular the concept of Shannon entropy. I’ve typed up a few notes...
Superstition explained? Signs point to no…
I happened to be lecturing about cause-effect relationships in my Biology of Mind course today, and will continue the subject next time. So I was interested ...
Randomness
From a passage on the statistical behavior of aggregates and probability theory, p. 64-65 in Entropy for Biologists by Harold J. Morowitz, Academic Press, N...
Information measures
Pp. 66-67 in Entropy for Biologists by Harold J. Morowitz, Academic Press, New York, 1970 (emphasis added):