{"id":127,"date":"2010-01-18T00:09:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T08:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/?p=127"},"modified":"2010-01-18T00:09:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T08:09:57","slug":"week-2-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/week-2-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2 in review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm. I feel like I probably don&#8217;t have a great deal to contribute in the way of thinky things on the stuff we talked about this week, because as a Biology major, most of what was presented wasn&#8217;t new material for me. I found the Dawkins chapter interesting, though &#8211; I haven&#8217;t read <u>The Selfish Gene<\/u> (though I&#8217;ve heard good things and keep meaning to read it), but the process he goes through in generalizing evolution reminds me a great deal of mathmatics &#8211; you can work through a few examples of a given problem type (say, a linear regression), and in doing so generate a simplified formula that applies to all cases of the problem. Dawkins&#8217; replicators are almost equivalent to the variable in a given formula &#8211; for evolution, the process holds true no matter what the variable is.<\/p>\n<p>I also apologize for my somewhat flailing attempts at explaining population genetics\/drift &#8211; I&#8217;m not much of a lecturer, although if anyone wants clarification some of that, I can do my best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm. I feel like I probably don&#8217;t have a great deal to contribute in the way of thinky things on the stuff we talked about this week, because as a Biology major, most of what was presented wasn&#8217;t new material for me. I found the Dawkins chapter interesting, though &#8211; I haven&#8217;t read The Selfish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evolsds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}