I am a paleontologist 3 Sep 2009 By “They Might be Giants”: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ8rblUtEXA&hl=en&fs=1&] Evolution Humor Pop culture Science
Evolution Speciation – a brief history: The eighteenth century evolutionist Lamarck 5 May 20146 May 2014 Eighteenth century ideas From Buffon we see that geographical factors are what caused novel forms for eighteenth century naturalists. Buffon’s view is a degenerative view of transformism. “Species” for him are degenerate forms of the premiere souche or first stock. The varieties we see around us are caused by local adaptation,… Read More
Biology The difference between population concepts and “population thinking” 8 Jan 201224 Nov 2022 The late Ernst Mayr is remembered for many things, but a number of his historical and philosophical claims are unravelling. The very clever and perspicacious Rutgers geneticist, Jody Hey, has published a paper in the Quarterly Review of Biology on one of these. Jody is a very good reader of… Read More
Administrative Envall troll has his own blog 17 Feb 2009 Once upon a time, I made mention, simply a mention, of a paper by one Matts Envall, which I said I would later comment on. I did so because a friend of mine, Malte Ebach, told me about him and the paper. I have yet to appropriately thank Malte. My… Read More
That’s a bit of poetic license: they don’t use shovels. I have seen this (Chris Nedin on a shale cliff).
I have cousins with young children, but since I am clueless, I don’t know what age group this stuff is appropriate for. Help, please. I like it, but am saving my quatloos for the new Beatles stuff.