I enjoyed the juxtaposition of portfolio theory with Darwinian dynamics as well as your highlighting of the notion that opportunity costs can also be envisioned as investments in the context of evolution. These are very instructive analogies. Thank you.
Charles Darwin corresponded with—and lent considerable support to—Irish businessman James Torbitt, who was (wrongly, it turned out) convinced he could breed a blight-resistant variety of potato by following Darwinian principles.
I enjoyed the juxtaposition of portfolio theory with Darwinian dynamics as well as your highlighting of the notion that opportunity costs can also be envisioned as investments in the context of evolution. These are very instructive analogies. Thank you.
Charles Darwin corresponded with—and lent considerable support to—Irish businessman James Torbitt, who was (wrongly, it turned out) convinced he could breed a blight-resistant variety of potato by following Darwinian principles.
I have just looked up James Torbitt. I didn't know about him. Thanks!
All Torbitt’s correspondence with Darwin is available online on the Darwin Correspondence Project website.