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Posts on ‘September 1st, 2010’

The fight over Nowak, Tarnita and Wilson’s paper heats up

You’ve been pestering me about my take on Nowak et al’s claimed destruction of inclusive fitness as an explanation for eusociality. To be honest this sort of thing makes my brain hurt, and I haven’t finished processing the models in the supplemental information that are central to the paper’s arguments. So you’ll have to wait [...]

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Answer to the Monday Night Mystery

As many of you picked, Monday’s mystery weevil was Haplorhynchites aeneus – the sunflower decapitating weevil (or something like that). Points are awarded as follows: 7 points to Chris Grinter for being the first to pick the species. 3 points to Serena for being the first to pick the genus. 1 point to James Trager [...]

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