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: Species concept
The topic of my doctorate and books.
Published 27 Apr 2022
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…
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Published 19 Sep 2020
John Ray on species fixity and race
For since in nature the number of species is fixed and determined, since ‘God on the sixth day rested from all his labour’, that is,…
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Published 4 Aug 2020
Do we need, and can we get, a single authoritative list of species?
In a recent paper, Garnett et al. [2020] have set up what they refer to as the principles for creating a single authoritative list of all…
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Published 11 Feb 2020
My 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!…
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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 3 May 2019
John Ray
This has been submitted as an entry in the Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, and it is offered here for your delectation and delight… Title…
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Published 7 Mar 2018
In defence of taxonomists [plus ça change]
I sympathize with the physiologist or ecologist, who after he has written a luminous paper on a Cratoegus or Viola, or Rosa, or Opuntia, endeavors…
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