Showing posts with label biology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biology. Show all posts
Thursday, December 26, 2024

Regulating emerging technologies

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  Here's a recent RAND report, on the current diverse attempts to regulate emerging biotechnologies, focusing on organoids,* embryos, ge...
Saturday, January 18, 2020

Egg trading by hermaphrodite fish--evolutionary game theory by Peña, Nöldeke, and Puebla

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Game theory is about how payoffs among multiple parties change the way they interact with each other. One of the most interesting areas of ...
Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Diversity of methodology in science, interview with E.O. Wilson

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The Chronicle of Higher Ed interviews E.O. Wilson on, among other things, diversity in scientific approaches: A Legendary Scientist Sound...
Thursday, April 18, 2019

Dead pigs and live brain cells--with implications still to be understood

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Dramatic scientific announcements get press coverage before they are well (or at all) understood, but that can still be exciting.  Here...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

Biological markets--from primates to cleaner wrasses to plants

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Evolution as the designer of market exchange between and among members of different species: here's a Bloomberg article about the work ...
Monday, February 3, 2014

Markets and microbes

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Economists are sometimes accused of scientific imperialism, but what is it when biologists find market models useful, as in this paper from...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Is market design like synthetic biology?

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Synthetic biology is concerned with the creation of new kinds of cells and organisms, and an interesting blog post by the economic sociolog...
Sunday, September 9, 2012

Gastroeconomics

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There has been a lot of interest in neuroeconomics lately, focusing on decision-making and the brain. But there are also a lot of neurons i...
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Saturday, February 4, 2012

Matching, mate choice, and...speciation

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Perspective: Matching, Mate Choice, and Speciation Author(s):  Puebla, O., Bermingham, E., Guichard, F. Source:...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Biological markets: exchange of goods and services among non-human species

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From the web pages of the French scientist Ronald Noe : Biological Markets . "The label 'biological markets' was proposed by...