A philosopher reviews a biologist on evolution 24 Mar 2009 Anthony Grayling, who does a really interesting review column in the Barnes and Noble Review, entitled “A Thinking Read”, has a piece on Jerry Coyne’s book Why Evolution is True. This saves me having to read it and review it for you myself. The column title is a pun on Blaise Pascal’s statement that “Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed”. A pun which I wish I had come up with. Book Evolution Species and systematics
Epistemology Darwinian evolution for culture 15 Nov 2009 Following on from my piece about songs and scientists, underverse (Chris Schoen) has taken me to task: … it becomes easy to see one of the flaws in memetic thinking. Changes in “culture” differ from changes in biology in that they are not random; they are directed toward a specific… Read More
Evolution I am a paleontologist 3 Sep 2009 By “They Might be Giants”: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ8rblUtEXA&hl=en&fs=1&] Read More
Biology The difference between population concepts and “population thinking” 8 Jan 201224 Nov 2022 The late Ernst Mayr is remembered for many things, but a number of his historical and philosophical claims are unravelling. The very clever and perspicacious Rutgers geneticist, Jody Hey, has published a paper in the Quarterly Review of Biology on one of these. Jody is a very good reader of… Read More
The standard phrase is “You will, John, you will.” Also, Your Royal Highness is like a stream of bat’s piss.
The standard phrase is “You will, John, you will.” Also, Your Royal Highness is like a stream of bat’s piss.
The standard phrase is “You will, John, you will.” Also, Your Royal Highness is like a stream of bat’s piss.