This one has robots, sort of…
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Species-related publications
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…
1 CommentOf Interest
One of the questions that have plagued my insomniac nights over the past decade or so is what makes something interesting. There are many proposals.…
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Gave a talk “The Good Species” yesterday (26 April 2022) to the HPS crowd at UniMelb. The discussion went a way I didn’t expect: classification…
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I have found it necessary, in the course of this volume, to speak of the departed; for the misgovernment of the Royal Society has not…
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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…
2 CommentsMy species book receives a Choice award
I am delighted to tell you that my book Species: The Evolution of the Idea has received a 2019 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Award!…
4 CommentsMy talk online
I recently gave a fuller version of my talk “Comprehension as Compression”, and I placed the slideshow on Slideshare. You may also download the PDF:
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