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The Evolution Of A Renegade - David Sloan Wilson
The Joe Walker Podcast
The Importance of Friendship in Science
The 1973 was the year that socio-biology was published and Dub Jansky said nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light of evolution. This was the decade that Tinberg and Lorenz and von Frisch got the Nobel Prize for their work. The concept of optimal foraging theory that you can study foraging in terms of fitness maximization led to predictions that you could test. And this led to the whole transformation of biology from a natural history descriptive typological phase to a predictive phase with models and testing. That's what I was lucky enough to be present for.
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