Adaptive Valley Crossing
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