On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 11:28:08 -0700, Christopher Green wrote:
What brought Price up, Mike?
I came across the article on the mosaic science website via
a newsletter I get. At first, I thought I knew the equation and
Price but I was mistaken and did a little more background
reading to get a bette
What brought Price up, Mike?
I remember writing a paper about him and his equation in a graduate philosophy
seminar many years ago.
(As I recall, no one else in the room understood what a variance was, which
made it a little tricky to explain why the equation was such a breakthrough —
even thou
George R. Price was born in NYC and would go down a crooked
road that would ultimately lead to the Galton Lab where he would
produced what is now referred to as the "Price Equation" that
attempts to explain why altruism exists if evolutionary theory is
correct. An interesting -- if depressing --
