A retrospective on agency (Ep 100)
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The Importance of Agency in Population Genetics
I wonder if some of the debate and disagreement over the importance of agency is because people didn't see it as related to population genetics. And I think systems biology and systems level thinking, that does offer a different perspective on the sort of traditional single locus to allele population genetic kind of simplification model. In other words, by doing the vicious abstraction, you've actually lost sight of something that's not tangential, but something that's really central to the way lineages evolve and diversify. It was because they really didn't see how... You thought they were unrelated.
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