I'm writing a book that deals with the concept of evolution applied to society and life (which is all part a creation of evolution anwyay, but usually (prolly never) are evolution concepts in politics and such). i'm being kinda general on the off-chance that someone would take my specific idea and publish it in a way i don't want.

 

So i was wondering what kind of math is involved in evolution. I know the really basic stuff, i want to know what kind of more complex alogrithims or whatever could be involved in higher types of evolution. Strategys of survival, whatever i don't even know where to start. I regret that i did not have the spine to take AP Calculus with some of my friends this year, else i may have a better concept on things. I may get into it later, cause given the right circumstances i really do enjoy math. My last teacher however as well put by a fellow drop out student, was an always smiling Nazi. I vommit at the thought. The book was also not competently organized, as last year i learned mostly by reading the book later(while i enjoyed the teacher i've always had big trouble staying awake during note taking time)

 

Any Evolution and/or Strategy type stuff (i'd like to know both) books you'd refer me to for self education, so i can put more intelligent concepts in my book?

writting your own book under the age of 20?

 

geez, what's the world comming to

 

g'luck in your venture.

Read Evolutionary Genetics by John Maynard Smith.

Read "The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution" by Stuart Kauffman. Here is his home page, on it is a link to this book's TOC that will give you a taste of the depth of his analysis and its results.

http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/People/kauffman/

The modelling of predator-prey situations is usually done by a system of linear differential equations - or so I learnt in my Differential Equations B lecture. That's just about all I know on the subject.

admiral ju-- yeah man, startin early, get rich, so i can avoid being a slave to the corporate world, hopefully use some of my money to weaken the chains of others slavery, and have plenty of time to focus on what is important

The modelling of predator-prey situations is usually done by a system of linear differential equations - or so I learnt in my Differential Equations B lecture. That's just about all I know on the subject.

 

yep, I remember it's one of the first things we looked at in chaos theory lectures.

chaos theory lectures . . . I WANT I WANT I WANT, GIMME. Where can i get some of those? i guess i could check out what's goin on at the local colleges

chaos theory lectures . . . I WANT I WANT I WANT, GIMME. Where can i get some of those? i guess i could check out what's goin on at the local colleges

 

Just get some books and read up on it It's not too hard to understand the basic principles.

The good thing is that anyone can model them, though at uni we used computers that were a little more advanced, IIRC the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K had a programme that modelled population pressures bundled in with the original release. Jet Set Willy was more entertaining though.

A good one to emulate is the classic double pendulum model (simply because it looks cool ). It's a great example of how a simple system can exhibit chaotic tendancies.

Here is a very fun site for lectures and labs about pendulum behavoirs.

http://monet.physik.unibas.ch/~elmer/pendulum/

Just get some books and read up on it It's not too hard to understand the basic principles.

 

I think i will after i get through some evolution books i got yesterday at the library--- i couldn't find the ones you guys told me about but i got a few by Richard Dawkins and one by someone McFadden, too lazy to go upstairs to see