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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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A Book for the Specialist
This is a book for mathematically-inclined population and evolutionary biologists and other behavioral scientists. It is not for the layperson. The book is an extended exegesis on Price's equation---like variations and themes. The exposition is a bit rough, but some of the formulations are marvelous. Price's equation is great for dealing with the interaction of...
Published on May 16, 2000 by Herbert Gintis
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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Not for the non specialist!
This book may well be everything its poblisher says it is, but it still will be of little use to readers unused to reading mathematical tracts. I was disappointed. With all the contention in this crucial field, somebody needs to go back to the beginning and carefully review the issues -- without bias and animus -- in a way that any attentive reader can understand.
Published on February 2, 1999
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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A Book for the Specialist,
By Herbert Gintis (Northampton, MA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Foundations of Social Evolution (Paperback)
This is a book for mathematically-inclined population and evolutionary biologists and other behavioral scientists. It is not for the layperson. The book is an extended exegesis on Price's equation---like variations and themes. The exposition is a bit rough, but some of the formulations are marvelous.Price's equation is great for dealing with the interaction of structured populations, but there are other important approaches, including developing Markov processes and/or sets of differential equations to capture the dynamics of interacting social groups.
7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not for the non specialist!,
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This review is from: Foundations of Social Evolution (Paperback)
This book may well be everything its poblisher says it is, but it still will be of little use to readers unused to reading mathematical tracts. I was disappointed. With all the contention in this crucial field, somebody needs to go back to the beginning and carefully review the issues -- without bias and animus -- in a way that any attentive reader can understand.
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Foundations of Social Evolution by Steven A. Frank (Paperback - July 1, 1998)
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