If you’re wondering why I chose to finish a second book in the series instead of immediately returning to completing Sigma Game, you’ll see why when you read The Frozen Gene. One of the primary criticisms about the SSH is that it is non-scientific, and that claim will be a lot harder to make now that I am a bestselling science writer who has published over a dozen science papers, several of them groundbreaking and likely to be either imitated or widely cited.
The Frozen Gene was intended to be as a simple compilation of the papers that I’d written while composing Probability Zero. However, a fortuitous discovery, combined by some points raised by a critic, led me to discover a vital historical error: the core equation in Moo Kimora’s fixation model, which is utilized in every genetics-based calculation of past time, is wrong. He algebraically canceled out two different variables that were accidentally given the same symbol: N does not necessarily equal Ne, and in fact, it very seldom does. And the process of investigating that error led me to some very surprising consequences with great potential consequences for the entire human race.
So the consequences go far beyond evolution, natural selection, and neutral theory per se. Which is why I felt that it was important to get the second book out right away. And, as I mentioned earlier this month, all of this is only going to lend additional authority and credibility to Sigma Game when it comes out in March.
In the meantime, I very highly recommend that you acquire and read both books in The Mathematics of Evolution. It will not only change your view of the world, it will change your view of science.
And yes, as you can probably imagine, the science Gammas are spiraling and exhibiting exactly the sort of behavior you would expect from them.
