A retrospective on agency (Ep 100)
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The Importance of Agency in Evolutionary Biology Research
The challenge here is articulating and incorporating a view of agency that is compatible with and appealing to those people who are actually doing evolutionary biology research. And how would you incorporate it into your studying guppies or insects or birds? Would it fundamentally change the kinds of experiments you design, the assumptions that you're making, the interpretation of your results in ways that the standard theory wouldn't do? I do hear your concerns. It's unfortunate that a lot of the people talking about agency are also funded by this agency that could raise some doubts.
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