Book review: Evidence and Evolution 26 Aug 2009 For those of you who have access to Systematic Biology, my review is here. It is online only so far. Elliot Sober’s book is by far the hardest book I have ever had to review, being one of the most complex and technical of its kind. It took me six months to read it. So I have probably done him all kinds of injustice. I do know that it was rather more negative than I intended it to be. Book Creationism and Intelligent Design Epistemology Evolution Philosophy Science
Education On journals and citation styles 31 Oct 2009 We live, you might have noticed, in an electronic age, right? So why, for heaven’s sake, don’t journals provide either a named Endnote or similar style for their journals? Springer in particular are very bad at this – they give relatively vague and ambiguous instructions via examples, but fail to… Read More
Evolution Homology 10 Nov 20074 Oct 2017 I’ve been so busy reading and assimilating the latest issue of Biology and Philosophy I forgot to let you all know about it. It’s a special issue on Homology, edited by Paul Griffiths and Ingo Brigandt. A discussion group has now been set up at Matt Haber’s blog The Philosophy… Read More
Biology Aware is finished. Now for something different 14 May 202414 May 2024 So I finished presenting the book Aware on my substack, which will now ferment in my bottom drawer (metaphorically) until it ripens. While that is happening I am preparing to edit some nineteenth century sources for discussions of classification, taxonomy, species, higher and lower taxa, and many other subjects. Does… Read More