Ejecta rays point to the problem with ‘ideal’ models
The PNAS Journal Club points to an interesting research study on craters: “Journal Club: Researchers may’ve finally solved mystery of crater ray formation”.
The PNAS Journal Club points to an interesting research study on craters: “Journal Club: Researchers may’ve finally solved mystery of crater ray formation”.
I am not philosophically opposed to building a mathematical model of Neandertal populations. Some of my best work has involved mathematical model-building. M...
My UW-Madison mathematics colleague Jordan Ellenberg has an interesting feature in Nautilus that describes a simple model capable of generating very complex ...
Notable paper: Zaman L, Meyer JR, Devangam S, Bryson DM, Lenski RE, et al. (2014) Coevolution Drives the Emergence of Complex Traits and Promotes Evolvabilit...
Stephen Hawking, quoted in Wired (“Stephen Hawking’s best quotes”)
From the NY Times earlier this spring, a profile of a New York woman with an exceptional legacy:
I’ve gotten the same question a few times, and have seen it elsewhere, so I thought it would be worth a short post to explain it. And for those readers who’v...
On the subject of modeling in genetics, John Timmer of Ars Technica has been running an excellent series on the challenges of computer models in biology. I’l...
Peter Turchin writes very effectively about quantitative modeling and analytical methods in biology. So every so often I like to post an illuminative quote. ...
There’s a new paper in PLoS ONE by Virginie Fabre, Silvana Condemi and Anna Degioanni, titled “Genetic evidence of geographical groups among Neanderthals.” I...
You’re not coming here for economic analysis, but I found this Wired article on quants, risk, and the financial crisis useful:
In the random corners of Google, I was led to a short 2004 letter in American Anthropologist by Daniel Wildcat, Irena Sumi and Vine Deloria, Jr. I found this...
I’m reading through Peter Turchin’s 1998 book, Quantitative Analysis of Movement, for a project I’m working on. I found that his second chapter gives a very ...
Exponential growth is a feature of current human populations, and was may represent how the human population behaved during some episodes of its demographic ...
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