Chris Humphries dies 6 Aug 2009 Influential botanist and conservation biologist Chris Humphries has died aged 62. Roberto Keller has more. Ecology and Biodiversity Systematics
Philosophy How to do numerical taxonomy 9 Oct 20219 Oct 2021 Hint: use only original IBM punch cards Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity On speciation 26 Jun 200922 Jun 2018 The Atavism has some thoughts on speciation in response to a high school teacher’s query. He uses the following nice diagram to indicate what some of the core species definitions mean: It’s neat, and therefore… wrong. By which I mean that given the rule that biological organisms do what they… Read More
Evolution More on why Brian Blessed is a monkey 26 Apr 201126 Apr 2011 If this worked, you should see a rather nice, if occasionally naughty language using, discussion of the point I made I little while ago why we should redefine terms like “monkey” to include humans. Sorry John Hawks… Read More