A series of posts on Categories in systematics 7 May 20257 May 2025 They are on Substack of course, and I forgot to link to them here, so: https://johnwilkins.substack.com/p/category-mistakes-with-explanation https://johnwilkins.substack.com/p/category-mistakes-in-scientific-metaphysics https://johnwilkins.substack.com/p/explanation-and-inference-in-science https://johnwilkins.substack.com/p/concepts-methods-and-categories Biology Ecology and Biodiversity Evolution Genetics Metaphysics Science Species and systematics
Evolution Ardi rules 2 Oct 2009 Some conclusions about Ardipithecus ramidus : 1. It may be a human ancestor or it may not. We do not know. 2. It had relatively little sexual dimorphism like humans. 3. It walked on two legs, but not well, and probably lived in woodlands. 4. It ate fruit and some… Read More
Evolution The evolution of reduced virulence 9 Jun 2008 Mystery Rays from Outer Space has a good essay on the evolution of spumaviruses (“foamy viruses”) which are cytologically fatal in the lab, but which are latent in most body cell types in the nonhuman species they inhabit. It turns out that they have evolved over a long time to… Read More
Evolution Browsing through the Philosophical Transactions on species and generation 30 Aug 2008 One of the major events in the history of science was the foundation of a number of published communications, so that the results of observation and research could be relatively quickly shared amongst scholars, and one of the first of these was the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of… Read More