Whitman to Jeannette Gilder: Unpublished

Jeannette Bigler , Chu

A method is presented for the analysis of fluorescently labeled random amplified polymorphic DNA (FRAPD) fragments. A DNA sequencer and collection and analysis software were used to estimate the sizes of DNA fragments based on their mobilities relative to in-lane size markers. This allowed confident identification and comparison of FRAPD markers both within and between polyacrylamide gels. In c...

Charles Otis Whitman (1842-1910)

Charles Otis Whitman [5] was an extremely curious and driven researcher who was not content to limit himself to one field of expertise. Among the fields of study to which he made significant contributions were: embryology [6]; morphology [7], or the form of living organisms and the relationships between their structures; natural history [8]; and behavior. Whitman served as director of several p...

Unpublished Manuscript

We here review the evolutionary theory relevant to the question of human cooperation and compare the results to other theoretical perspectives. Then, we will summarize some of our own work, distilling a compound explanation that we believe gives a plausible account of human cooperation and selfishness. This account leans heavily on group selection on cultural variation but also includes lower l...

On Gilder and Wealth and Poverty

W E A L T H AND POVERTY* according to the preface is the culmination of a ten-year study of economics that began when the author read Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom.’ Gilder’s study led through the works of economists Schumpeter and Keynes and into the “supply-side” school of economics. The book itself (hereafter, sometimes denoted by WP) sprang from an earlier sociological study of p...

Manuscript collections: The Jeannette Dean-Throckmorton papers.