Alex Wild on insects, science, and photography
For those of you following the fireworks over this paper, David Sloan Wilson has a nuanced take on the inclusive fitness debate: Few people who use inclusive fitness theory are aware of the long list of simplifying assumptions that result in Hamilton’s deceptively simple rule. Nowak et al. are performing a service to the evolutionary [...]
It occurs to me that an objective measure of the amount of Fail in a given misidentification could be useful. I propose the following: A = the actual taxon of the pictured organism B = the taxon as misidentified T = the number of million years since A and B shared a common ancestor* H [...]
A personal weblog by Illinois-based biologist and photographer Alex Wild.
Myrmecos- derived from the ancient greek word for "ant"- hosts Alex's musings about these and other little creatures that share our planet.
Questions? Comments? Email alwild [at] myrmecos.net
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