Beautifully written article with a rather sad and sympathetically handled ending. On the Price Equation, I think this is rather telling - "In her own quest to

Beautifully written article with a rather sad and sympathetically handled ending. On the Price Equation, I think this is rather telling - "In her own quest to crack its meaning": * quite simple, really * Another jumped up and started scribbling diagrams and equations on the whiteboard in his office * None of us understands it really ... which leads to: "For its supporters, the Price equation is the closest thing biology has to E=mc2" No it isn't. E=mc^2 stands up to experiment after experiment and observation after observation. The Price Equation is at best a conjecture that looks right. Looking right is not generally considered rigorous.