What’s a personal blog for, if not to blow my own horn? Well, it can only be to blow the horns of those who I…
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Published 8 Sep 2023
Category: Ecology and Biodiversity
Published 18 Mar 2020
Virulence and vectors
Apropos of nothing, I am reminded of Paul Ewald’s book Evolution of infectious disease (1994). Ewald begins with the question of whether parasites and pathogens evolve…
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Published 6 Dec 2019
Environmentalism timetable
I prepared this for my students and thought others might like it. It’s a timetable of environmental law, politics, publications of note, events and disasters…
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Published 1 Jan 2018
50 words for snow 7: taxing attacks on taxa
We should consider in each case what Question it is that is proposed, and what answer to it would, in the instance before us, be…
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Published 11 Oct 2017
Species: The evolution of the idea
My revised book is now titled Species: The evolution of the idea, and now contains a philosophy section as well as a complete list of species…
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Published 18 Oct 2014
A nineteenth century view on classification
The principle upon which I understand the Natural System of Botany to be founded is, that the affinities of plants may be determined by a…
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Published 12 Aug 2014
Wilkins on philosophy of science
As part of the Science Week activities that informed the last few posts, I will be giving a brief introduction to philosophy of science as…
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Published 29 Mar 2014
The origins of “speciation”
As I do some research on the history of speciation theories, I came across this, which is perhaps the original coining of the term: Evolution…
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