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Bad takes #6: requires “drift in small populations”
Unfamiliar ideas are often mis-identified and mis-characterized. It takes time for a new idea to be sufficiently familiar that it can be debated meaningfully. We look forward to those more… Read more
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Grounding internalism in the introduction process: from pop-gen to evo-devo
(work in progress: emerging manuscript, currently in the form of a persuasive essay) Abstract (This abstract is aspirational. The actual manuscript delivers the argument in a different way.) Historical debates… Read more
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Some thoughts on the conceptual immune system of the “Synthesis”
As noted in Bad Takes #3, there is a long tradition of dismissing internalist-structuralist thinking on the false grounds that such ideas are necessarily appeals to teleology or mystical inner… Read more
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Bad takes #2. Evolution by “mutation pressure”
Unfamiliar ideas are often mis-identified and mis-characterized. It takes time for a new idea to be sufficiently familiar that it can be debated meaningfully. We look forward to those more… Read more
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Bad takes #4. Attacking the phrase “mutation-driven.”
Unfamiliar ideas are often mis-identified and mis-characterized. It takes time for a new idea to be sufficiently familiar that it can be debated meaningfully. We look forward to those more… Read more
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Bad takes #5. It’s just contingency
Unfamiliar ideas are often mis-identified and mis-characterized. It takes time for a new idea to be sufficiently familiar that it can be debated meaningfully. We look forward to those more… Read more
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Bad takes #3. Mutation bias as an independent cause of adaptation.
Unfamiliar ideas are often mis-identified and mis-characterized. It takes time for a new idea to be sufficiently familiar that it can be debated meaningfully. We look forward to those more… Read more
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Bad takes #1. We have long known
Unfamiliar ideas are often mis-identified and mis-characterized. It takes time for a new idea to be sufficiently familiar that it can be debated meaningfully. We look forward to those more… Read more
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NRC Research Associateship: mutation and evolution
The US National Research Council (NRC) offers competitive Research Associateships for post-doctoral and senior scientists to conduct research in participating federal labs. The awards include a generous stipend as well… Read more
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PoMo, Oh No! A comment on The Logic of Chance
For a long time I was meaning to write a review of Eugene Koonin’s The Logic of Chance: The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution. The book has been out… Read more
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