FAPP on the doorstep 12 May 2010 My copy of What Darwin Got Wrong by Fodor and Piatelli-Palmarini has arrived and was waiting at the door for me this AM. God the British mail system is fast to Australia! Now I owe a series of posts on Rossano’s book first, but perhaps I will read FAPP on the plane (to the UK this Saturday, volcano permitting) and write a review. I intend to respond to the most charitable reading of their arguments I can make out. Stay tuned… Book Evolution Philosophy EvolutionPhilosophy
Evolution Evolution quotes 12 Jun 2010 Evolution and phylogeny.—Evolution is the process and phylogeny the record of descent. Phylogeny is thus the measure of relationship, and is to be expressed in terms of community of ancestry; hence, if relationship is to express evolution adequately, it must take account of each change, from the branch to the… Read More
Philosophy Another chapter on religion done 17 Nov 2017 Readers will recall I had a series on why people believe silly things… This is now a book chapter, with extra added citation goodness and many footnotes, although I haven’t yet resorted to Terry Pratchett’s practice of doing footnotes to the footnotes. Not yet. The book is New Developments in… Read More
Evolution Images on evolution outreach 17 Jan 200818 Sep 2017 Colin Purrington has a nice set of publicly available images for use in pro-science talks. Go check ’em out. Read More
I’ve been waiting for it impatiently. Though I don’t think yours will be scathing as other reviews. Marco F
If only the British mail system were as fast to Britain. (Sorry I can’t join you for a nice, non-chilled pint of non-fizzy real ale, but I’m snowed under at work at the moment). Next time, maybe?