Book proposal call 4 Apr 20124 Apr 2012 I’m on the editorial board of the Species and Systematics series at the University of California Press, and so if any of you have a proposal for that series, on any topic relating to these two areas that is academic and specialist, let me, series editor Malte Ebach, or the editor at UCP, Chuck Crumly, know. We’re looking for books now! This isn’t a philosophy series, though; rather it’s a science series that happened once to publish a history (i.e., mine). Book Species and systematics
History Wilkins on radio 12 Dec 2010 Here. The actual recording is not being played until 23 January… Read More
Biology Obit: Chris Humphries 18 Aug 2009 The Telegraph in the UK has an obituary for Chris Humphries, the botanist and systematist who died recently. Humphries was also a major player in the use of biogeography for conservation. Read More
Species and systematics “Class” war 1 Nov 2008 An essay in Nature recently, titled “A question of class” (by Jeffrey Parsons and Yair Wand) puts the case that classification is crucial to science and needs to be understood. They hold, as I do, that a poor understanding of classification – particularly of the concepts/words “class” and “category” –… Read More