http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/03/23/a-smithsonian-q-a-with-e-o-wilson-complete-with-outtakes/ Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:13:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/03/23/a-smithsonian-q-a-with-e-o-wilson-complete-with-outtakes/#comment-17792 Kith and Kin Selection « Formicidae Fantasy Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:48:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5706#comment-17792 [...] Zimmer recently interviewed E.O. Wilson for the Smithsonian, and the conversation included discussion about the group [...] [...] Zimmer recently interviewed E.O. Wilson for the Smithsonian, and the conversation included discussion about the group [...]

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/03/23/a-smithsonian-q-a-with-e-o-wilson-complete-with-outtakes/#comment-17791 Ryan Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:03:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5706#comment-17791 That answer struck me as well. It suggested to me that Wilson has little understanding of his coauthors' models (I think they were simulations not analytical models for one thing) or of the breadth of their relevance (the models did not even vary the degree of relatedness as one of theor parameters). That answer struck me as well. It suggested to me that Wilson has little understanding of his coauthors’ models (I think they were simulations not analytical models for one thing) or of the breadth of their relevance (the models did not even vary the degree of relatedness as one of theor parameters).

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/03/23/a-smithsonian-q-a-with-e-o-wilson-complete-with-outtakes/#comment-17790 Daniel Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:58:56 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5706#comment-17790 I'm still having trouble accepting that mathematics can explain everything, especially when it comes to how evolution works. So only because a certain kind of selection "doesn't make sense mathematically" doesn't really bother me in accepting that it might very well work in reality. I’m still having trouble accepting that mathematics can explain everything, especially when it comes to how evolution works. So only because a certain kind of selection “doesn’t make sense mathematically” doesn’t really bother me in accepting that it might very well work in reality.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/03/23/a-smithsonian-q-a-with-e-o-wilson-complete-with-outtakes/#comment-17789 Darwiniana » Smithsonian: E. O. Wilson Sat, 24 Mar 2012 17:01:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5706#comment-17789 [...] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/03/23/a-smithsonian-q-a-with-e-o-wilson-complete-with-ou... [...] [...] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/03/23/a-smithsonian-q-a-with-e-o-wilson-complete-with-ou… [...]

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