There’s a useful summary essay on the recent work on cognitive accounts of religion in Science by Elizabeth Culotta:
Culotta, Elizabeth. 2009. On the Origin of Religion. Science 326 (5954):784-787. [Needs subscription]
Leiter links to a set of useful philosophy referee hand signals. I didn’t know I was supposed to wear the baseball gear when I referee articles.
Josh Rosenau, my host at NCSE, has blogged about his experience debating creationism recently. Worth a read.
Razib Khan has a very good introduction to the Price equation. This is the core of much modern evolutionary genetics.
I have a new job. Details will follow when it becomes public.
Yes. Truck driver. After a fashion…
You didn’t last long in Sidney…
I suppose it’s a better job, so Congratulations!
The Price equation isn’t about genetics. But poor John isn’t a biologist, so we can forgive him.
Congrats (I hope!) on the job. have you finally become a truck driver?
I have four books on modern evolutionary genetics that I consult frequently: Nei and Kumar (2000), Grauer and Li (2000), Freeman and Herron (1998), and Hartl and Clark (2007).
None of them even mention the Price equation.
Isn’t that strange?
Football … those uniforms are what (American) football referees wear. Oznians! …
Congrats … I hope … on the new job.