Darwin conference at U Chicago 16 Apr 2009 Yes, I know there are thousands of these this year, and by October we’ll all be tired of them, but this one looks like the main game: Darwin/Chicago 2009. I am, of course, upset not to be invited to speak, but there are a few good names there to make up for my absence… Evolution History
Ecology and Biodiversity Liveblogging the conference: Jon Seger 14 Mar 2008 Jon is a Utah biologist. His talk is on population genetics. Read More
Evolution The “design” mistake 18 Feb 2008 Back when Darwin was a student at Cambridge, he read, and almost memorised the Rev William Paley’s Natural Theology, and thereafter remained impressed by the obvious adaptiveness of the parts of organisms and their interrelations. As is well known, he gave an explanation differently to Paley’s external intelligence that designs… Read More
Biology Atavisms and phylogeny 15 Sep 20094 Oct 2017 “Everybody knows” that species can lose features through evolution: snakes, whales and sea cows all lost hind limbs. But occasionally, they can “revert”, like the snake shown in the photo below, which has grown one limb. However, many people are confused as to why this happens. Read More
Probably going to fly in for this. Good groups of speakers – both scientific and non – and I’ve never actually been to Chicago (except to drive through).
Damn! Two things: – Looking at the list of speakers alone you may be fooled into thinking the conference will be held at Harvard. – Looking at the program you may wish you could be at two different places at the same time.
Damn! Two things: – Looking at the list of speakers alone you may be fooled into thinking the conference will be held at Harvard. – Looking at the program you may wish you could be at two different places at the same time.
Damn! Two things: – Looking at the list of speakers alone you may be fooled into thinking the conference will be held at Harvard. – Looking at the program you may wish you could be at two different places at the same time.
Not so great. Ruse is giving a talk: “Is Darwinism Past Its ‘Sell-by’ Date? The Challenge of Evo-Devo” I think he’s past his sell-by date.
Scott, Shubin, Futuyma, but not you? It’s all phylogeny, paleontology, ontogeny. And some guy named Kitcher talking about philosphy. Who the frak is he? He wrote his books a long time ago, so anything he has to say is so outdated.
Scott, Shubin, Futuyma, but not you? It’s all phylogeny, paleontology, ontogeny. And some guy named Kitcher talking about philosphy. Who the frak is he? He wrote his books a long time ago, so anything he has to say is so outdated.
Scott, Shubin, Futuyma, but not you? It’s all phylogeny, paleontology, ontogeny. And some guy named Kitcher talking about philosphy. Who the frak is he? He wrote his books a long time ago, so anything he has to say is so outdated.
Scott, Shubin, Futuyma, but not you? It’s all phylogeny, paleontology, ontogeny. And some guy named Kitcher talking about philosphy. Who the frak is he? He wrote his books a long time ago, so anything he has to say is so outdated.