I only have spotty internet access (from my GF’s wireless), so I cannot do great and meaningful posts right now. So, I will do what all the cool kids are doing, and post my best for the year, or rather, my better ones. Below the fold…
January
On the supposed essentialism before Darwin
Science by pedophile
The ontology of biology 4 – pattern and process
February
Myths about Darwin
Myths 2: The origin of species
Myth 3: Darwin was a Lamarckian
Myth 4: Darwin was a gradualist
Myth 5: Darwin thought evolution relied on accidents and chance
The theological mindset
Laws, theories and models
Natural selection fails with Man – W. R. Greg
March
Myth 6: Darwin thought everything was due to natural selection
Myth 7: Darwin thought that Australian aborigines were closer to apes than to Europeans
Mill on Kinds and Types
Blumenbach on the unity of the human species, and on species
Science Communication and the Business Model
William Smellie on the great chain of being
April
New work on lateral transfer shows that Darwin was wrong
On the lateral transfer post
Information and metaphysics
The End of Punditry
The first use of a taxonomic tree
An ancient cladogram
May
Linnaeus on evolution by hybridism
Is religious cognition adaptive?
The first biological species concept
There is no missing link
What is the “humanities”?
What is “secular”?
Philosophy and evolution
No, it’s not an ancestor either (probably)
June
A Code of Conduct for Effective Rational Discussion [Stolen, but useful]
Cultural evolution and population density
Quetelet and the origin of statistical and population thinking
The doctrine of double truth
When do species begin?
The Demon Spencer
Linnaeus: the founder of databases
Apes and evolution in the news
Definitions of atheism
The relation between physics and biology
On speciation
The great accommodationism debate
On hierarchies
July
Evidence and Evolution
On bullying at school, and reunions
Gods above
Social dominance psychology in humans
Social dominance hierarchies
August
Grayling on Gopnik
Punish the obsessive
Dreams of memes and replicator machines
The tautology problem
tautology 1a: corrections
Tautology 1b: Butler
Rudiments and vestiges
Tautology 2: The problem arises
Tautology 3: The problem spreads
Tautology 4: What is a tautology?
Tautology 5a: The issues
Tautology 5b: The issues, continued
September
On preventive censorship versus punishment
Tautology 6: A resolution
Tautology 7: Conclusions
Arnhart on Hitler’s Ethic
Butler’s word games
Unscientific Australia
Going backwards, or, devolution?
October
Counterintuition: Bdelloid Rotifers
What came before Darwin
On gods and religion
Defining religion
Darwin and Blumenbach
November
Philosophy as forgetting, and index characters
Darwinian evolution for culture
Lazy Manager Theory
It was 150 years ago tomorrow
Computers aren’t science
What counts as “unique”?
Darwin was not badly received by the church
December
On vitalism
Copernicus did not demote humanity
Sausages, and science
I hope this gives you some pleasure and thoughts over the new year break. Happy new year from me.
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Happy New Year and happy Bonding. Sorry our attempts to kidnap you did not work. We are not good at Evil Planning.
As this a purely arbitrary day of the year I don’t regard it as the beginning or end of anything but if you wish to abide by these strange human rituals I will also wish you a happy new what ever.