Category Archives: Links
9 1/2 Links
Things have been rather quiet lately, but there have been some good links. A paper entitled “Evolutionary Chance Mutation: A Defense of the Modern Synthesis’ Consensus View” has appeared on an open source journal. Tom Rees at Epiphenom has an … Continue reading
You are what you eat
… so go eat from this tasty menu at the new Carnival of Evolution. And make sure you tip the snotty waiter, or you may get a bad aperitif.
Filed under Evolution, Links, Philosophy
Three for the Links
The Sad, Sad Story of Physeter: Chris Taylor, who does wonderful pieces about taxonomy and is my hero, has a report on the changes of name for the sperm whale, from the 18th century onwards. The Cult of Christ: Grrlscientist … Continue reading
Filed under Links, Philosophy, Religion, Social evolution, Systematics
The Evil Links I
Why are there more Christian congregations where there is more crime? On Quasispecies; Abbie notes an open source paper in FEBS on viral quasispecies. I worry that it fails to attend to the work of Sergey Gavrilets on holey landscapes, … Continue reading
The Links Strike Back
Today we have a new science blogging site, Scientopia, that takes many of the emigrés from Scienceblogs. When I get the time I’ll update the links at the right. A discussion on the use of “respect” ensued. Some of those … Continue reading
Filed under Australian stuff, Biology, Censorship, Evolution, General Science, History, Humor, Links, Politics, Religion, Species and systematics
Linkraiser
Lots of links today. First, let’s deal with the NYT post by Virginia Heffernan attacking science blogging. There are some fair comments there – I have objected to the religion bashing in many science blogs for a long time, and … Continue reading
