BBC show on Ediacaran fauna 7 Jul 2009 A commenter just posted this: Greetings Ediacara fans, You may be interested in tuning into In Our Time BBC Radio 4, at 0900 BST on Thursday (9th) July. See here for the links. Evolution Species and systematics Systematics
Biology Ranking 24 Aug 2010 A diversion in the natural classification series. In natural classification, we typically do not find that patterns due to the process of historical causation come arrayed neatly in boxes within boxes, and yet one of the most common temptations is for classifiers to set up fixed ranks. The Linnaean scheme… Read More
Evolution Species article online 27 Oct 2008 The NCSE has put up more of its content from it’s excellent, if badly laid out, magazine Reports of the NCSE. As a result, one of my better pieces, on species concepts, is now up, with a list of what I at the time thought were the concepts in the… Read More
Epistemology Plantinga’s EAAN 31 Jan 201231 Jan 2012 A post now up at the Philosopher’s Carnival discusses Alvin Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism (EAAN), and comment how it is like (not exactly the same) as a global skepticism argument being self-defeating. Plantinga’s argument goes like this: P1. If evolution is true, then we have modified monkey brains. P2…. Read More