Word: bio
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...optimal behavior or adaptive strategies of animals in a competitive environment while also having to account for the probability of alternative strategies in the neighboring environment. Piel wrote a creative game theory word problem that would apply to the classroom situation and e-mailed the problem to every Bio 22 student. He set out to test his students' honesty and to discover if anyone had been paying attention during lecture...
...following payoffs: If the student who took the answer key fails to return it and is eventually caught, he or she will get a zero for the ESS problem set (let's call this cost C). If the student is caught willfully sharing the answer key with other Bio 22 students, the student will be referred to the Administrative Board (suffers cost C as well as the Ad Board cost D). A Bio 22 recipient who refuses to read the answer key and reports the perpetrator who passed it out (given that the perpetrator fails to report himself/herself) will...
...There is nothing that has come out of the discussions to date that suggests that the total number of required concentration courses will diminish," he says. "Indeed, given the explosion of information in the bio-medical sciences that is occurring now, I regret that we cannot require even more concentration courses of our concentrators...
...goofy (Auntie Mame). Where you place Lucianne between the two extremes is a matter of taste and political predisposition. But there's no denying that she brought color and diversion to a scandal that might otherwise have sunk under the weight of its own tawdriness. The highlights of her bio became quickly familiar even (maybe especially) to those who pretended to hate the scandal. She served as a hired spy for Richard Nixon's factotums on George McGovern's press plane in 1972; every night she reported back the latest (and by all accounts politically worthless) gossip...
Biology concentrator Michael S. Calderwood '99 has taken about two science courses per semester during his four years at Harvard, "so I spend almost every day in the bio labs." He spent two and a half years working for Millenium Pharmaceuticals, a Cambridge biotechnological firm, and has worked for the Ministry of Health in Brazil since the summer...