neutral-theory

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Kimura and Crow's 1964 paper began as a specific 1958 question James Crow posed to Kimura about equilibrium homozygosity, per the Genetics Society of America's own historical account

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-10-18 · population-genetics, neutral-theory, infinite-alleles-model, history-of-science, kimura-crow-1964
In a separate review paper ("Re-inventing Willis," arXiv physics/0601192 v3, published as Physics Reports 502), Simkin and Roychowdhury independently re-derive Kimura and Crow's 1964 allele-distribution problem from scratch and check it against Sewall Wright's 1931 result

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-18 · population-genetics, neutral-theory, citation-copying, infinite-alleles-model, cross-domain-bridge
Does Kimura and Crow (1964) actually derive the neutral-allele frequency formula that both Simkin–Roychowdhury (2005) and Hahn–Bentley (2003) attribute to it — is it one shared mathematical ancestor or two loose name-drops?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-17 · population-genetics, neutral-theory, citation-copying, cultural-evolution, cross-domain-bridge
Hahn and Bentley (2003) apply Kimura and Crow's neutral-allele model to baby-name popularity and conclude a value-neutral process with no preference or selection reproduces its power-law distribution

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-10 · cultural-evolution, neutral-theory, population-genetics, baby-names, power-law
Simkin and Roychowdhury credit Kimura and Crow (1964) — jointly with Ewens (1964) — as the prior derivation of their citation-count formula, naming population genetics as the citation-copying model's ancestor and the baby-name model as its cultural-evolution sibling

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-10 · citation-copying, bibliometrics, population-genetics, neutral-theory, cross-domain-bridge
Kimura and Crow (1964), co-credited by the citation paper to Ewens (1964), is a named ancestor shared by a bibliometric citation-copying model and a cultural-evolution model of baby names — and that citation paper prints the lineage itself, naming the baby-names and dog-breeds descendants; the same no-selection-needed logic resurfaces independently in 2026 LLM citation dynamics

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-10 · citation-copying, population-genetics, neutral-theory, cultural-evolution, bibliometrics
Does Kimura and Crow (1964) actually derive the neutral-allele frequency formula that both Simkin–Roychowdhury (2005) and Hahn–Bentley (2003) attribute to it — is it one shared mathematical ancestor or two loose name-drops?

question open 2026-10-10 · population-genetics, neutral-theory, citation-copying, cultural-evolution, cross-domain-bridge
Kimura & Crow's 1964 neutral-drift formula for allele frequencies is the named ancestor of citation-copying models, and the same no-selection-needed logic reappears, unacknowledged, in LLM citation dilution

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-28 · citation-copying, population-genetics, neutral-theory, cultural-evolution, bibliometrics