What brought Price up, Mike? I remember writing a paper about him and his equation in a graduate philosophy seminar many years ago. (As I recall, no one else in the room understood what a variance was, which made it a little tricky to explain why the equation was such a breakthrough — even though it seems to still get relatively scant mention even today.)
Chris ….. Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 43.773895°, -79.503670° [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo ………………………………... On Sep 18, 2016, at 12:11 PM, Mike Palij <[email protected]> wrote: > George R. Price was born in NYC and would go down a crooked > road that would ultimately lead to the Galton Lab where he would > produced what is now referred to as the "Price Equation" that > attempts to explain why altruism exists if evolutionary theory is > correct. An interesting -- if depressing -- account of his life and > its twists and turns is presented in the following article, which > puts Price's life in the context of a female British playwright who > would write a play about Price; see: > http://mosaicscience.com/story/George-Price-altruism-equation?utm_source=narratively&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekender09182016 > NOTE: at the bottom of the article is a reference list but one > has to click on the "reference bar" to see them. > > For more "straight " info on Price, there entries in Wikipedia > that provide more information but leaving out some of the details > in the article above: > The biographical entry on Price: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Price > On the Price Equation: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_equation > An entry on a movie where the Price equation plays > a critical role: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%CE%94Z > NOTE: The original title of the movie is "W (Greek Symbol delta) Z" > which is a part of the equation. In the U.S., the movie > was released with the title "The Killing Gene" which is > available on Amazon: > https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Gene-Barbara-Adair/dp/B00151QY9Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1474212073&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Killing+Gene > > I think that one can't help feeling sorry for Price because > though he was brilliant in certain ways, he did not have the > self-insight to understand how he would ultimately destroy > himself. > > -Mike Palij > New York University > [email protected] > > P.S. No new explosions today in NYC. > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92&n=T&l=tips&o=49475 > or send a blank email to > leave-49475-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=49476 or send a blank email to leave-49476-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
