Adaptive Valley Crossing

Eric discusses Adaptive Valley Crossing during his 2008 talk at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

A concept within Sewall Wright's theory of Adaptive Fitness Landscapes. Read about Adaptive Valleys on The Basics Guide.

Historical Examples

• Jack's trade of a cow for three magic beans in Jack and the Beanstalk fairytale
• Linus Pauling's Triple Helix
• Dirac's prediction of the proton as the antiparticle to the electron
• Einstein's use of the Ricci tensor without subtracting off some multiple of the metric in an early instantiation of gravity theory

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