Competition winners 2 Nov 20112 Nov 2011 In case people did not notice my announcement in the comments of that post, the winners of a signed copy of my species history book are: Cameron Peters Doug G Elais Jackson Jesse Schaefer Lorax sbh Send me an email with your addresses. I will send the books as soon as I can locate the moving box that has them in. Administrative Species concept
Administrative We seem to be back… 29 Jun 201229 Jun 2012 It looks like the permalinks now work. Continue to inform me if things go screwy. Read More
Administrative Mutant genres 21 Oct 2007 This is a meme started by PZ Mackers. I will exact retribution upon him later. In the meantime, I have been tagged Read More
Biology Darwin and Blumenbach 28 Oct 200918 Sep 2017 I recently became aware that the probable originator of the “biological” species concept, which I prefer to call the Reproductive Isolation Species Conception*, or RISC, was Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840). He presented this in his doctoral thesis On the natural varieties of mankind (1776), and I missed putting it in… Read More
I am glad to see my request to definitively not win has been honoured. Most kind, John. Most kind. Therefore I shall congratulate the winners and tell my 2 and a half year old son to ignore me and do the direct opposite of what I am asking him to do. Two successes in one day, achievable goals, achievable goals… 😉 Louis
Congratulations, winners! I guess I’ll have to resort to stalking John at conferences to get a copy of his book signed :).
I love the idea of a free book, congrats to the winners, and the signature is a bonus, but the burning question is, how much for just the signature, and what is your bank account information?
w00t!!11!! I just want to thank god (aka silverback and his virtual dice) for the win. Don’t know how I previously missed this post .