So, what have I been doing for the Covid Lockdown. Many things. This is one of them. The CRC Press link is here, but I’ll…
Published 18 Oct 2021
New edited species book
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Category: Book
My books, or books I have read or am discussing.
Published 12 Mar 2014
Accommodating Science overview
I have done quite a lot of blogging under this heading lately so I thought it might be useful to get all the posts used…
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Published 6 Feb 2014
Books I am reading/reviewing
Despite marking scores of essays, after having taught a subject intensive, and preparing various papers, I get to review some books. This means reading them,…
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Published 22 Jan 2014
Natural classification
It occurs to me that I haven’t plugged my own book here. What a failure on my part! It was published in December, so it…
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Published 25 Nov 2012
My latest paper – Carving Nature at its Joints, a review
You can find it online here. A very interesting but ultimately, to me, largely frustrating book (because it didn’t answer my questions, goddammit!). Review –…
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Published 4 Apr 2012
Book proposal call
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…
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Published 2 Aug 2011
Yet another “post-Darwinism”
Over the years there have been many books that purport to “radically revise” or “supplant” Darwinian evolutionary biology; they come with predictable regularity. Usually they…
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Published 15 Jan 2011
“Species” an ALA Choice Book
I take what plaudits I can: Choice, from The American Library Association, has listed my book Species: A History of the Idea as an “Outstanding…
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Published 12 Jan 2011
A paperback of Species: A History
My not-inconsiderable ego has expanded several sizes upon the news from University of California Press that my book Species: A History of the Idea (see…
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Published 22 Dec 2010
A review of my species book
David Morrison, editor at Systematic Biology, has given me a very nice and well informed and researched review for my book Species: A history of…
