Kid’s resource for species 9 Aug 2008 Kids Research Express has a pretty good summary of the issue of species and speciation, which it wouldn’t hurt most people to read. Sure, they repeat the mistake about Plato and typology, but that’s OK. It’s for kids and nonspecialists. We can fix up their errors later when they get the basics. Evolution Species and systematics
Ecology and Biodiversity A new online philosophy of biology journal 8 May 2009 It’s called Philosophy and Theory in Biology. This is based on some heavy hitters: Massimo Pigliucci, Jon Kaplan, Alan Love and Joan Roughgarden are the editors, and the editorial board looks like a Who’s Who of philosophy of biology. No apparent page charges, and it’s online only (I hope they… Read More
Evolution Nationalism and evolution 3 Dec 2007 Way back in the 1910s, when human evolution was poorly known, some trickster, probably Charles Dawson, its discoverer, set up a hoax: Piltdown man. This was enthusiastically accepted by many British experts because it made Britain, and in particular, England, a leading locale in human evolution. This was the era… Read More
Biology Arsenic and the life extraterrestrial 3 Dec 201022 Jun 2018 Paul Z. Myers, a little known biologist from Minnesota has published a lovely debunking of the hype surrounding the “second life” announcement from NASA. He should do more science-related posts. He’s really good at them. Here are some other excellent pieces: Bytesized Biology, Leaf Warbler, Greg Laden; Wired; and Ed… Read More
John, are saying that we can teach our children scientific mistakes? Are you making an argument for Framing Science?:)
Who is the target audience? The piece struck me as being written in a fairly dense style, using more vocabulary than necessary, and not reading well. Nothing wrong with making new paragraphs for new subjects.