148 years ago today 24 Nov 2007 … a book was published that changed the way we thought of biology. Evolution General Science Species and systematics
Censorship It’s not censorship it’s, ahh… 4 Apr 20094 Oct 2017 Oklahoma lawmakers are singling out the visit by Richard Dawkins to talk about evolution on campus at OU, but they’re not censoring it, right? Just making academics fear for their funding, and perhaps jobs, but seeking all documentation about the visit. Just this visit, mind. Piers Hale, a historian of… Read More
Evolution The Essentialism Story 22 Aug 2007 Historian Mary P. Winsor published recently (2006b, in the December 2006 edition, but it just came out) a paper discussing how the Essentialism Story was constructed by Arthur Cain, Ernst Mayr, and David Hull. The Essentialism Story is the claim that before Darwin systematists and biologists in general treated natural… Read More
Evolution Myths 2: The origin of species 12 Feb 2009 So today, which is in the antipodes (we being so far ahead of you northern western types) the 200th birthday of an obscure British naturalist gentleman, we address this myth: Myth 2: Darwin did not explain the origin of species in The Origin of Species Here’s some folk claiming just… Read More
And 23 years ago today, my first personal contribution to the human gene pool arrived. I will always enjoy that coincidence.
If a boy, did you name him Orjan? No. At the time, we weren’t aware of the significance of the date. But if we had been, of course we would have been all over that…..
You want to complain… my daughter was an elective inducement, and we scheduled it for the Friday, because Thursday was mid week. Had we thought it through, her birthday would have been 6/7/89. Oh well…