Ants! 23 Sep 2008 There’s a guest post at the Panda’s Thumb by myrmidon Alex Wild on the new “primitive” ant just reported. Go read it. Ecology and Biodiversity Species and systematics
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
Biology Taxonomist’s revenge 21 Jun 2009 There’s a long and distinguished history of taxonomists taking revenge upon friends and enemies (sometimes simultaneously!) by naming unpleasant things after them. Linnaeus himself named an ugly useless weed after his major critic, Siegesbeck, who had attacked the “sexual system” of Linnaean botany. More recently, Quentin Wheeler named three types… Read More
Cognition 50 words for snow 5; species 15 Oct 20171 Mar 2019 Series Conceptual confusion The economics of cultural categories What are phenomena? What counts as sociocultural? Species Constructing phenomena Explanations and phenomena All classificatory terms are impossible of exact definition. Their use always has and always will depend upon the consensus of opinion of those best qualified by wisdom, experience and… Read More
Thanks John. Following the original post, we ended up with a discussion of the media coverage, which morphed into a discussion of why discoveries of new fly families can’t muster the same press coverage as this new ant subfamily.
Thanks John. Following the original post, we ended up with a discussion of the media coverage, which morphed into a discussion of why discoveries of new fly families can’t muster the same press coverage as this new ant subfamily.