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: Speciation
Published 29 Jul 2019
New book contract
Well CRC Press haven’t learned their lesson yet, and have given me, Frank Zachos (Vienna) and Igor Pavlinov (Moscow) a contract for an edited book…
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Published 18 Jul 2019
A not terribly good post on the species problem
As a biological phenomenon the species problem is worthy of serious study as an end in itself, and not as a mere corollary to work…
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Published 5 May 2014
Speciation – a brief history: The eighteenth century evolutionist Lamarck
Eighteenth century ideas From Buffon we see that geographical factors are what caused novel forms for eighteenth century naturalists. Buffon’s view is a degenerative view…
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Published 4 Apr 2014
Speciation – A brief history: The late eighteenth century
After Linnaeus had settled on the older mechanism of hybridisation of genera with other genera or with varieties formed by geographical conditions as the cause…
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Published 1 Apr 2014
Speciation – a brief history: Linnaeus
One of the fundamental aspects of evolution is speciation. This is the process by which more species come into being, and there are many different…
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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…
