{"id":233,"date":"2012-04-24T22:04:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T22:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/~sfrey\/wordpress\/?p=233"},"modified":"2013-11-28T20:06:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T20:06:43","slug":"difficulties-replicating-kashtan-alon-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/post\/233","title":{"rendered":"Difficulties replicating Kashtan &#038; Alon (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the paper, its about the evolution of neural structure.  Do brains have parts?  Do bodies have parts?  If you think so, you&#8217;re very forward thinking, because science has no idea how that could possibly have evolved.  Kashtan and Alon published a mechanism for the evolution of structure.  They proposed that if environments have modular structure then things that evolve in them will as well.  Or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>I had trouble replicating their result.  By the time I did, I had lost all faith in it.  There are some tricks to make the effect seem bigger than it is, and there might be some confounds, though I stopped short of proving it.  I&#8217;ve got a proposal all written up, but I changed disciplines before I could implement.  I&#8217;m not the only one who couldn&#8217;t replicate &#8212; I&#8217;ve met others who had the same problem.  <\/p>\n<p>I still love that paper, but I personally believe that the mystery of evolved structure is more unsolved than we think.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the paper, its about the evolution of neural structure. Do brains have parts? Do bodies have parts? If you think so, you&#8217;re very forward thinking, because science has no idea how that could possibly have evolved. Kashtan and Alon published a mechanism for the evolution of structure. They proposed that if environments have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/post\/233\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Difficulties replicating Kashtan &#038; Alon (2005)<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}