Link: The frequentist Bigfoot
Carl Zimmer connects Bigfoot with an explanation of the history of “null hypothesis” in a Nautilus essay: “Why we can’t rule out Bigfoot”. He discusses a rec...
Carl Zimmer connects Bigfoot with an explanation of the history of “null hypothesis” in a Nautilus essay: “Why we can’t rule out Bigfoot”. He discusses a rec...
Haldane’s Sieve has a great post by James Lee giving context to a new preprint from him and Carson Chow: “Our paper: The causal meaning of Fishers average ef...
Peter Ralph and Graham Coop have an interesting paper in the current Genetics, titled, “Parallel Adaptation: One or Many Waves of Advance of an Advantageous ...
From p. 37 of the Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (1930):
Chapter 2 of R. A. Fisher’s Genetical Theory of Natural Selection is remarkable for many reasons. In it, he presents a model of selection in an age-structure...
Sewall Wright’s metaphor of the “fitness landscape” is fundamental in the way many biologists think about adaptation. The idea of a population “climbing” tow...
People often complain that R. A. Fisher wrote in a hard-to-read style; unnecessarily verbose and indirect. Either I don’t tend to mind, or I find that the st...
I’ve intermittently been reading through William Provine’s The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics. It’s related to a project simmering on my back bur...
I went looking for Lowie, because I was curious about the introduction of the diffusion concept into cultural anthropology. The mathematical description of d...
n. b. This is a story about my work on recent human evolution, describing some of the main results and how the work came about. The story refers to my paper ...