First a plug for an upcoming conference. If you are interested in artificial life there is a conference, Alife 14, being run by, among others, a friend of mine, Hiroki Sayama. There is one week left submit abstract, and a good time should be had by all. . This meeting will take place in New […]
Griffing, Associate effects, and heritability.
Last week I talked about the effects of localized mating on heritability. If you remember we discovered the effect was small, at least for weedy species like Plantago lanceolata. This week I would instead like to talk about the effect of interaction structure on the heritability of traits. Much of what I will be talking […]
Local mating and heritability
Focus focus focus. There have been lots of articles this week about how kin selection explains everything. It is very tempting to go off on a heated rant about how it is time to move past 1964, and maybe start doing some science around social evolution. Instead, I will maintain focus and continue to talk […]
Mating structure, Interaction structure, and Selection structure
Many years ago when I was a graduate student, Mike Wade suggested that we need to consider two distinct types of population structure, mating structure and interaction structure. At the time I was quite naïve and I constructed my own meaning around that idea. I doubt he was thinking about it in the way I […]
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