Asia’s empty forests 1 Sep 2008 The Annotated Budak has an absolutely wonderful post on megafauna, hominid impacts, biodiversity and biogeography up. Go read it immediately. Ecology and Biodiversity Evolution Species and systematics
Evolution On the problem of the problem of evil and Darwin 15 Mar 2011 In yet another essay reprising his argument that theists can be good Darwinians (a position I concur with, incidentally), Michael Ruse makes the following comment, based on a book by Karl Giberson and Francis Collins, The Language of Science and Faith: Straight Answers to Genuine Questions: Where I do want… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity Chris Humphries dies 6 Aug 2009 Influential botanist and conservation biologist Chris Humphries has died aged 62. Roberto Keller has more. Read More
Evolution When academics attack 5 Dec 2007 I love a good academic stoush, so long as I’m just watching and not involved either as an antagonist or as collateral damage. Recently, Steven Pinker published a book, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, which was subsequently reviewed by Patricia Churchland, in Nature. Unfortunately,… Read More
Interesting. I have a project coming up in south east Asia looking at biodiversity, land use, socio-economic trends, and climate change. To paraphrase old what’s his face “it is the best of worlds, it is the worst of worlds”.