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I encourage you to write this up, as it is a fairly novel take on potentially quantitatively testing evolutionary psychology theories one way or the other. Do y

I encourage you to write this up, as it is a fairly novel take on potentially quantitatively testing evolutionary psychology theories one way or the other. Do you have an email or contact info? If you write me at the email in my profile I could put you in touch with some senior population geneticists who I'm sure would be interested.

ewjordan 16y ago
I have absolutely no idea whether any of this is new or not, I'm a complete novice to bio and evo psych. For the most part I've been exclusively focused on taking inspiration from what seems to work in natural evolution as a guide to improving genetic methods in programming, so I haven't really thought too much about drawing conclusions from the real world (an unfortunate side effect of majoring in math, the real world seems so mundane :P ). Re: writing something up, I'll add it to my todo list, hopefully it will happen eventually, though I'm fairly slow at more formal writing... I am planning to do a series of posts on evolutionary methods in programming, where I want to cover (and hopefully prove useful) a lot of biologically inspired things usually left out of vanilla genetic algorithms/programming (speciation, gender, chromosome/gene separations, automatic evolution of coding schemes, embeddings of meta-evolutionary abilities within the normal evolution process, and hopefully more), but I'm lagging on actually trying out all the things I'd like to, and I also want to find some more compelling practical uses for this stuff...can't make any promises, this is currently a total side-project for me, but I'm plugging away at it, so I'll do my best to write it up eventually. I'll start thinking more about what might be possible to infer from real DNA; my brother is working on his bio-informatics PhD and I've had a lot of conversations with him about this type of thing, so I know that some of the stuff they're able to pull out of the data is truly incredible, they very well may have the data necessary to answer questions about fixation speeds in each chromosome, which would be extremely interesting whatever the results were. Sent you an e-mail, and added info to my profile (didn't realize that it wasn't already available from the e-mail field, that should be more clear IMO) - if you really think any of this is worth pursuing, by all means let me know.

ewjordan 16y ago

I have absolutely no idea whether any of this is new or not, I'm a complete novice to bio and evo psych. For the most part I've been exclusively focused on taking inspiration from what seems to work in natural evolution as a guide to improving genetic methods in programming, so I haven't really thought too much about drawing conclusions from the real world (an unfortunate side effect of majoring in math, the real world seems so mundane :P ). Re: writing something up, I'll add it to my todo list, hopefully it will happen eventually, though I'm fairly slow at more formal writing... I am planning to do a series of posts on evolutionary methods in programming, where I want to cover (and hopefully prove useful) a lot of biologically inspired things usually left out of vanilla genetic algorithms/programming (speciation, gender, chromosome/gene separations, automatic evolution of coding schemes, embeddings of meta-evolutionary abilities within the normal evolution process, and hopefully more), but I'm lagging on actually trying out all the things I'd like to, and I also want to find some more compelling practical uses for this stuff...can't make any promises, this is currently a total side-project for me, but I'm plugging away at it, so I'll do my best to write it up eventually. I'll start thinking more about what might be possible to infer from real DNA; my brother is working on his bio-informatics PhD and I've had a lot of conversations with him about this type of thing, so I know that some of the stuff they're able to pull out of the data is truly incredible, they very well may have the data necessary to answer questions about fixation speeds in each chromosome, which would be extremely interesting whatever the results were. Sent you an e-mail, and added info to my profile (didn't realize that it wasn't already available from the e-mail field, that should be more clear IMO) - if you really think any of this is worth pursuing, by all means let me know.