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Tribal - a book. Tools - Part 1. Executive Summary Tribal - Header. Chapter 1: Tools - Science and Mathematical Modeling. Chapter 2 - 5 : Nerd Core. Chapter 7: It's Just Not Fair. Full Version Tribal - Header. Chapter 1: Tools for the Tool Kit - Part 1. Chapter 2: Nerd Core. Chapter 3: Cheaters Always Win. Chapter 4: Except When They Don't - the Haystack Model. Chapter 5: War is the Answer. Chapter 7: It's Just Not Fair. RSS - - - -. Executive Summary Tribal - Header. Full Version Tribal - Header.
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Chapter 2: Nerd Core | bookTribal.com
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Tribal - a book. Tools - Part 1. Full Version Tribal - Header. Chapter 2: Nerd Core. A top level view of the subject matter to be covered in the next 3 chapters]. Executive Summary of the Next 3 Chapters. Selfish Genes, Group Selection, and Kin Selection. Mathematical Modeling - Adding Complexity - Agent Based Modeling. Executive Summary of the Next 3 Chapters. RSS - - - -. Executive Summary Tribal - Header. Full Version Tribal - Header. Chapter 1: Tools for the Tool Kit - Part 1. Chapter 2: Nerd Core.
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Chapter 1: Tools for the Tool Kit - Part 1 | bookTribal.com
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Tribal - a book. Tools - Part 1. Full Version Tribal - Header. Chapter 1: Tools for the Tool Kit - Part 1. Tools for the Tool Kit - Part 1. If writing this book is a journey, step one is to load up a bag with the conceptual tools we’ll need along the way. Please pardon the brief stopover while I do so. I’ll start with a few major tools here and then add more, later, as we go along. Chp 1 Sec 1 : Science. Chp 1 Sec 2 : Mathematical Modeling. Chp 1 Sec 1 : Science. RSS - - - -. Full Version Tribal - Header.
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Tribal - a book. Tools - Part 1. Look at Brain Plasticity using quotes from Doige and What Have You Changed Your Mind About. Paradigm Shift: Brain Plasticity. This will be displayed as a sidebar when I figure out how to display sidebars. Currently it is embedded as a chapter topic but is Sidebar content type.]. By happenstance, I found an excellent example of scientific paradigm shift in two books unrelated to our subject (or each other for that matter). First, Paul Bach-y-Rita. In 1958 when Paul was alr...
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Introduction | bookTribal.com
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Tribal - a book. Tools - Part 1. Full Version Tribal - Header. Drawing by Charles Darwin. This book is based on a basic underlying hypothesis: that human beings are tribal: deeply tribal, fundamentally tribal, genetically tribal. We have, in fact, been tribal since well before we were human. We are always and everywhere, like almost all of our closest primate kin, tribal. What does this mean? I see tribal currents in the deep and poignant loneliness of teenagers, in the unifying spiritual visions of a Ga...
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Chapter 6: Religion | bookTribal.com
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Tribal - a book. Tools - Part 1. Full Version Tribal - Header. Introduction - pt 1:. In the chapter on war, I discussed the possibility that humans have conflicting genetic tendencies giving them a propensity towards both intense pro-sociality and genocide. Considering that conflict, I can’t help but note a similar conflict in religion that’s always been central to both the attraction and repulsion I feel towards it. More on that below. The way that I resolve the contradiction is that I don’t. The view o...
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Chp 1 Sec 2 : Mathematical Modeling | bookTribal.com
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Tribal - a book. Tools - Part 1. Full Version Tribal - Header. Chapter 1: Tools for the Tool Kit - Part 1. Chp 1 Sec 2 : Mathematical Modeling. Ldquo;The purpose of models is not to describe reality but to clarify the conditions under which a statement is true.”. Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. Models for population growth, too, are brushed aside by some ecologists as being far too simple to be real. Ndash; Karl Sigmund. Mathematical Modeling - Ancecdotal Intro.
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Chapter 3: Cheaters Always Win | bookTribal.com
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Tribal - a book. Tools - Part 1. Full Version Tribal - Header. Chapter 3: Cheaters Always Win. Wynne-Edwards bites the dust.]. From the Executive Summary:. The math is quiet clear. This is a placeholder for the full chapter which is in progress.]. Selfish Genes, Group Selection, and Kin Selection. Chapter 4: Except When They Don't - the Haystack Model. RSS - - - -. Executive Summary Tribal - Header. Full Version Tribal - Header. Chapter 1: Tools for the Tool Kit - Part 1. Chapter 2: Nerd Core.
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Table of Contents | bookTribal.com
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Tribal - a book. Tools - Part 1. Chapter 1 - Tools from the Toolkit - Part 1. Token - Soc of Sci, More Kuhn. Adding Complexity - Statistical Modeling. Adding Complexity - Game Theory. Adding Complexity - Agent Based Modeling. Chapter 2 - Nerd Core. Executive Summary of th Next 3 Chapters. Selfish Genes, Group Selection, and Kin Selection. Chapter 3 - Cheaters Always Win. Chapter 4 - Except When They Don't - the Haystack Mode. Chapter 5 - War is the Answer. Chapter 6 - Religion. RSS - - - -.
