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john4525 · Wysłany: Pon 11:24, 07 Mar 2011 Temat postu: the consciousness of biologists

the consciousness of biologists (Figure 1). The initial dormancy is very
evident. Then it looks as though there is a dramatic upturn in interest in kin
selection during the 1970s. If there is any point where the upward trend
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pace up to a peak in 1981after which the annual rate of citation fluctuates
irregularly about a plateau.
A memic myth has grown up that the upsurge of interest in kin selection
was all triggered by books published in 1975 and 1976. The graphwith its
upturn in 1974seems to give the lie to this idea. On the contrarythe
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evidence could be used to support a very different hypothesisnamely that
we are dealing with one of those ideas that was 'in the air''whose time had
come'. Those mid-seventies books wouldon this viewbe symptoms of the
bandwagon effect rather than prime causes of it.
FIGURE 1 . Yearly citations of Hamilton (1964) in the Science Citation Index
Perhapsindeedwe are dealing with a longer-termslow-starting
exponentially accelerating bandwagon that began much earlier. One way of
testing this simpleexponential hypothesis is to plot the citations
cumulatively on a logarithmic scale. Anyyilai:
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