W. JAMES: IMMEDIATE RESEMBLANCE

James W. Valentine

Jim Valentine went to college on the GI Bill (a WWII veterans privilege) and has been there ever since; at present he is Professor of Integrative Biology, Emeritus, at UC Berkeley. His early research was on what is now called macroecology, working with fossil marine faunas, leading to a book, Evolutionary Paleoecology of the Marine Biosphere. Those studies continue today, chiefly with colleague...

Book Review: The Teaching Gap by James W. Stigler and James Hiebert

Locke ’ s Resemblance Theses

1 Preparatory Remarks Locke asserts that " the Ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns do really exist in the Bodies themselves; But the Ideas, produced in us by these Secondary Qualities, have no resemblance of them at all. " 1 On an unsophisticated way of taking his words, he means that ideas of primary qualities are like the qualities they represent...

Comparing Resemblance Measures∗

In the paper some types of equivalences over resemblance measures and some basic results about them are given. Based on induced partial orderings on the set of unordered pairs of units a dissimilarity between two resemblance measures over finite set of units can be defined. As an example, using this dissimilarity standard association coefficients between binary vectors are compared both theoret...

Family Resemblance vs. Polymorphism

CONTENTS SUMMARY "Measure boundary" concepts for domains with a metric Use of task-related boundary Metrical and non-metrical concepts, and polymorphism Parametric polymorphism in biological designs Family Resemblance Ryle’s Polymorphism Parametric polymorphism in computer science Exercises for the reader Evolution and parametric polymorphism Programming languages with parametric polymorphism M...