1/ For a particular species, you can estimate the average time per generation, right? Is it possible to do it for a few hops up the tree of descent, too? I'd like to see visualizations of that.
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Replying to @generativist
Trying to understand your question: Are you asking for an estimate of average reproductive age of an ancient ancestors of a given species? And you want to look at long-term trends like how average reproductive age changed in some lineage?
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Replying to @kaznatcheev @generativist
For example, as a mammal lineage goes from mouse-sized to elephant-sized over 24 million years, you want a graph of reproductive age?
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Bu this won't give direct estimate of the 'rate' of evolution. Follow Haldane: we need to look at the number of deaths to get that estimate. And although reproductive age correlates negatively with number of deaths, it isn't perfect. Brood size and range expansion also important.
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Either way, your question fleshed out slightly would be a great contribution to the biology SE: https://biology.stackexchange.com And more permanent and searchable than twitter.
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Hrm. I should, but I feel like I'm also groping in the dark in this field. Do you know any good intros (preferably with a computational emphasis)?
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I don't know good intros, unfortunately. The worst part is that computational emphasis, in particular, tends to promote agent-based model thinking and other reductive 'mistakes' that I think is misleading. But I'll ponder this more & get back to you if something springs to mind.
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