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 CommentCategory: Species concept
The topic of my doctorate and books.
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 closedJohn 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,…
9 CommentsDo 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…
4 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 CommentsJohn 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…
Comments closedIn 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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