A review at Arnhart 18 Sep 2009 and a fair one I think. Not that I agree with him about Darwin, but there’s room for honest disagreement. Species concept
Administrative Travel Diary 13: Berkeley talk 6 Nov 2009 Well, yet again I have utterly utterly failed to embarrass my university by making an idiot of myself in public. In short, the talk (on the Essentialism Myth) to the Vertebrate Zoology crowd at Berkeley went very well I am told. I believe them because instead of sending me on… Read More
Evolution Speciation – A brief history: The late eighteenth century 5 Apr 20146 Apr 2014 After Linnaeus had settled on the older mechanism of hybridisation of genera with other genera or with varieties formed by geographical conditions as the cause of new species, the topic began to pick up speed. Hybridisation remained the usual method as late as the 1830s (e.g., in Lindley) but two… Read More
Biology Species: The evolution of the idea 12 Oct 2017 My revised book is now titled Species: The evolution of the idea, and now contains a philosophy section as well as a complete list of species concept[ion]s and an appendix of all taxonomic levels I could locate. It is due out in February 2018 from CRC Press. I have done a… Read More
I can’t comment on the review or the book (Species) because Species has not arrived in my college library. When it arrives and I read it, I will offer comments.
It’s a blog in-joke. I won’t get stuck into Chris Mooney’s and Sheril Kirshenbaum’s Unscientific America until I actually read it, and a number of people have said I don’t need to because I’ve read their blog.