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		<title>Dark days</title>
		<link>http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/01/dark-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John S. Wilkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you didn’t notice, just recently a number of web giants, as well as innumerable other websites, went “dark” in protest against the attempts to control the internet by the US government. But the US isn’t the first nation &#8230; <a href="http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/01/dark-days/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A philosophical apology from 1919 for not being pro-war</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John S. Wilkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leiter posted the PDF of this on his site. I can&#8217;t help but reproduce some of the choicer quotes: &#8220;DEAR FRIEND: Your letter gently but un-mistakably intimates that I am a slacker, a slacker in peace as well as in &#8230; <a href="http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/01/a-philosophical-apology-from-1919-for-not-being-pro-war/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A logical inference, or, on how to submit Carnival of Evolution posts</title>
		<link>http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/01/a-logical-inference-or-on-how-to-submit-carnival-of-evolution-posts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John S. Wilkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I could put this into standard logical form, or even argument map it, but I&#8217;m too lazy. However, since I&#8217;ll be hosting one of these soon, I should post this the way Bjørn Østman sent it to me: Carnival of &#8230; <a href="http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/01/a-logical-inference-or-on-how-to-submit-carnival-of-evolution-posts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Shandyan dilemma</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John S. Wilkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reginald Hill, author of the Dalziel and Pascoe detective series among many others, has died. This is a partial post I started some time back, so I thought I&#8217;d post it as is. In Recalled to Life, Reginald Hill has &#8230; <a href="http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/01/the-shandyan-dilemma/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on Novelty 8: Conclusion &#8211; Post evo-devo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John S. Wilkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Notes on Novelty series: 1. Introduction 2. Historical considerations &#8211; before and after evolution 3: The meaning of evolutionary novelty 4: Examples &#8211; the beetle&#8217;s horns and the turtle&#8217;s shell 5: Evolutionary radiations and individuation 6: Levels of description 7: Surprise! 8: Conclusion – Post evo-devo &#8230; <a href="http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/01/notes-on-novelty-8-conclusion-post-evo-devo/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on novelty 7: Surprise!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John S. Wilkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Notes on Novelty series: 1. Introduction 2. Historical considerations &#8211; before and after evolution 3: The meaning of evolutionary novelty 4: Examples &#8211; the beetle&#8217;s horns and the turtle&#8217;s shell 5: Evolutionary radiations and individuation 6: Levels of description 7: Surprise! 8: Conclusion – Post evo-devo &#8230; <a href="http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/01/notes-on-novelty-7-surprise/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Size matters</title>
		<link>http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/01/size-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John S. Wilkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As always, click on the image to go see the entire Tony Piro goodness]]></description>
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		<title>Sherlock Cumberbatch on Evolutionary Psychology</title>
		<link>http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/01/sherlock-cummerbatch-on-evolutionary-psychology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John S. Wilkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As always, click on the image to go see the entire Jonathon Rosenberg goodness]]></description>
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		<title>You can&#8217;t explain a variable with a constant</title>
		<link>http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/01/you-cant-explain-a-variable-with-a-constant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John S. Wilkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of reader Jocelyn Stoller, comes this video, of respected philosopher of science Jim Woodward discussing whether or not religious beliefs explains things like suicide bombing and the moral right in the US. Answer: not likely. Watch part 2 at &#8230; <a href="http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/01/you-cant-explain-a-variable-with-a-constant/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution quotes: Quetelet on populations</title>
		<link>http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/01/evolution-quotes-quetelet-on-populations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John S. Wilkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Populations arise imperceptibly; it is only when they have reached a certain degree of development that we begin to think of their existence. This increase is more or less rapid, and it proceeds either from an excess of births over &#8230; <a href="http://evolvingthoughts.net/2012/01/evolution-quotes-quetelet-on-populations/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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