paper · George Price · tradition:
evolutionary-dynamics
Price (1970) decomposes the change in any trait across a generation into two terms: a selection term equal to the covariance between the trait and fitness, and a transmission term capturing everything imperfect transmission does. The aim lives entirely in the covariance; the transmission term is the blind cost, and biased (anisotropic) transmission sits there too — still un-steerable. Formal backing for the transport-as-cost / selection-as-choice split.
The book’s stance. evidentiary grounding for the two-term decomposition in Chapter 5b.
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