An essay on the evolution of human evolution 12 Aug 2007 Laelaps has a very nice essay that ranges from the number of ribs humans have, the book of Genesis, creationism, and the variety of stories told about human evolution from the nineteenth century to now. Go read it. It’s one of the few blog posts in which you’ll read of petrified testicles… [HT: Afarensis] Evolution History Social evolution Species and systematics
Academe Why philosophers should publish in science journals 16 Feb 2011 Generally my papers cause a mild reaction – like a dose of poison ivy. But i just had a paper published in Zootaxa, a mild mannered systematics journal, and as well as a two week turnaround, unheard of in philosophy (my last big paper took a year and a half),… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity The mind of the ecological engineer 27 Oct 201127 Oct 2011 I watched a very interesting documentary episode recently, entitled “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” (a phrase of poet Richard Brautigan’s), in which the maker Adam Curtis put forward the view that ecology was founded (at least in its modern iteration) in direct analogy with the view of… Read More
Evolution Early vision was colourful 28 Oct 20074 Oct 2017 UPDATED: To give some of my colleagues at the University of Queensland some link love, it is being reported that they have sequenced the Queensland lungfish (currently under threat by a proposed dam) opsin genes, showing that they see in ultraviolet and visible light, as well as having the ability… Read More
Thank you for the link, John! I initially intended to only review a few papers, but I got sucked in (my wife knew that I would be lost to blogging for most of the day). I’ve still got to add a few illustrations later today, but I am glad you enjoyed it. Thank you.
It’s one of the few blog posts in which you’ll read of petrified testicles… Haven’t been reading my wife’s blog, eh? Brian’s blog looks very interesting Thanks for the pointer.
Just breezing through the article, the one thing that struck me is how much the Neandertal rendering from Colbert’s Evolution of the Verterbrates looks like Benjamin Disraeli.