Bees on coke 2 Apr 2010 Isn’t this just the funniest fucking thing you’ve ever read?! Australian stuff Biology Humor
Biology George C. Williams dies 11 Sep 2010 Few evolutionary biologists have had the impact within and without their field as has George Williams, who died this week. His groundbreaking Adaptation and Natural Selection in 1966 set off the debate over levels of selection, the ubiquity of natural selection and some decent philosophising. It’s no exaggeration to say… Read More
Evolution The Essentialism Story 22 Aug 2007 Historian Mary P. Winsor published recently (2006b, in the December 2006 edition, but it just came out) a paper discussing how the Essentialism Story was constructed by Arthur Cain, Ernst Mayr, and David Hull. The Essentialism Story is the claim that before Darwin systematists and biologists in general treated natural… Read More
No. It’s not nearly so funny as any randomly chosen 10 seconds of a meeting of the philosophy department of the University of Woolamaloo.
In my defence, in researching my comment, I spent my time reviewing the sketch, rather than checking the spelling, something I think we can all agree is a good time allocation decision.
Thanks so much John – haven’t laughed that hard in ages. Almost as good as Robyn Williams and his description of Aussies and England’s rednecks. Woot! Mind you, I think I once laughed at Pratchett’s books like that…hard to top.