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by Mark James Adams
A worker in quantitative genetics, primate psychology, and cooperative breeding. I research the evolutionary dynamics of correlated suites of behavior in wild animals. I am trying to answer the question Why do our personalities differ?
About Differential biology? Ask the Reader @differentialist
A worker in quantitative genetics, primate psychology, and cooperative breeding. I research the evolutionary dynamics of correlated suites of behavior in wild animals. I am trying to answer the question Why do our personalities differ?
About Differential biology? Ask the Reader @differentialist
February 22, 2013
February 21, 2013
"destiny is constructed."
— Susan Oyama, The Ontogeny of Information, 2nd ed. p 9.
February 20, 2013
Camera traps from the Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network via Wired
- Ahumada et al Community structure and diversity of tropical forest mammals: data from a global camera trap network Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2011 366 1578 2703-2711; doi:10.1098/rstb.2011.0115 1471-2970
February 19, 2013
A side view of brain pathways, from the right. At far left is the visual cortex, connected by a large bundle, green, which connects to the frontal lobes. At centre, the vertical pathways in blue serve voluntary movement, connecting the motor areas of the brain with the spinal cord and muscles. The green path at centre is the right cingulum bundle, here seen from the side. The cerebellum, which controls coordinated movement, can be seen at bottom left.
via BBC News)
February 18, 2013
Wilton M. Krogman, The Scars of Human Evolution, Scientific American 1951.
February 18, 2013
Nematode, from The Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture via @JenniferFrazer
February 17, 2013
(Source: rhamphotheca, via notrare)
February 16, 2013
February 16, 2013
DAGs, vectors, and correctness
John Myles White on writing better statistical programs:
- write out a graphical model
- vectorize your simulations
- fit your model to simulated data to check correctness
February 13, 2013
February 6, 2013
"data is the ultimate arbiter of truth in science, and when we see scientists engaged in emotional arguments about competing theoretical visions, this probably results from the inability to bring data to bear on the controversies"
— Chris Jensen paraphrasing H. Allen Orr
February 4, 2013
R and the permission culture
The R package specification enforces the permission culture by requiring a License field in the package DESCRIPTION file. I buckled and slapped a CC0 sticker on the package I am currently writing.
February 2, 2013
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. — Michel de Montaigne
(Source: psychotherapy)
January 27, 2013
"scientific education is, to a considerable extent, an exercise in taming the authority of one’s intuition"
— H. Allen Orr, Awaiting a New Darwin, The New York Review of Books
January 13, 2013
"Everybody wants to be Jared Diamond, that’s the problem."
— Andrew Gelman, on That controversial claim that high genetic diversity, or low genetic diversity, is bad for the economy
