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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Operative concepts
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…
Comments closedThe first phylogeny
The only diagram in the Origin is famously the hypothetical series of species forming a tree structure, but it isn’t an actual classification based on his…
1 CommentMy 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 CommentsPutnam on taxonomic terms
Terms with respect to which we defer to experts include both technical terms in science and such terms as ‘elm’ or ‘beech’ (in the United…
Comments closedIs racism Christian?
I was taught that racism developed out of Johannes Blumenbach’s Anthropological Treatises in the late eighteenth century, specifically his doctoral thesis On the Natural Variety…
17 CommentsDraft of talk, for comment
I will be presenting this talk in Brisbane in a few weeks. Have a look and make suggestions.
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