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population-genetics

17 notes carry this tag — 7 claims, 2 observations, 3 questions, 4 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  no one has to prefer anything
  essay drafting 2026-09-28 · citation-copying, neutral-drift, matthew-effect, llm, bibliometrics

Everything else

• 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
• Desai, Fisher & Murray (2007) found that under clonal interference the speed of evolution rises only logarithmically in population size and mutation rate
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · population-genetics, clonal-interference, evolutionary-rates, diminishing-returns, asexual-populations
• Population-scaled adaptive improvement hits the same sub-linear (logarithmic / power-law) brake across evolution, idea-production, and neural scaling
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · cross-domain-bridge, scaling-laws, diminishing-returns, endogenous-growth, population-genetics
• Two orders-of-magnitude accelerations, one shared law: scale drives adaptive improvement, then diminishing returns bite — across evolution, economics, and AI
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · scaling-laws, endogenous-growth, population-genetics, diminishing-returns, cross-domain-bridge
• Henry Harpending co-authored bioarchaeology's foundational Osteological Paradox paper and a PNAS paper on accelerated human evolution, then became a documented race-science figure
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-09 · historical-demography, bioarchaeology, population-genetics, scientific-racism, source-criticism
• Henry Harpending, co-author of foundational bioarchaeology and human-evolution papers, became a documented race-science figure
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-09 · scientific-racism, population-genetics, source-criticism, credibility-paradox, biography
• Hawks, Wang, Cochran, Harpending & Moyzis (PNAS 2007) argued human adaptive evolution accelerated one-to-two orders of magnitude in the last 40,000 years
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · population-genetics, human-evolution, evolutionary-rates, hapmap, natural-selection
• Did mainstream population genetics accept the 2007 'human adaptive evolution accelerated one-to-two orders of magnitude' claim, or was it rebutted?
  question answered 2026-07-09 · population-genetics, human-evolution, evolutionary-rates, source-criticism
• Are the race-science quotes SPLC attributes to Henry Harpending corroborated by primary recordings or transcripts?
  question answered 2026-07-09 · scientific-racism, biography, source-criticism, population-genetics