Launching Species 14 Feb 201827 Feb 2019 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder It’s out! Get it here. Hardback and Ebook. Administrative Science Species and systematics Species concept
Evolution Bats and mice and wings and things 18 May 200818 Sep 2017 Comparative limb growth of a bat (top) and a mouse, in utero development. From the paper below. One of my favourite statistics is this: one in every four mammal species you meet is a rat or rodent, and one in every five is a bat. That’s right, nine in every… Read More
Academe Herding cats, ethically 20 Jul 2010 There is a famous ad on Youtube in which cat wranglers herd cats to a final destination (for slaughtering? really?) as a metaphor for providing IT services. What is underpinning that humor is that domestic cats are not, typically, herd animals. They do not get along in large groups, although… Read More
Biology Taxonomist’s revenge 21 Jun 2009 There’s a long and distinguished history of taxonomists taking revenge upon friends and enemies (sometimes simultaneously!) by naming unpleasant things after them. Linnaeus himself named an ugly useless weed after his major critic, Siegesbeck, who had attacked the “sexual system” of Linnaean botany. More recently, Quentin Wheeler named three types… Read More
Dear John, Now that the comic strip SMBC has convinced me that qualia don’t exist, I realized that pain is a qualia. There is a problem because the usual refutation of solipsism is to drop a brick on the solipsists feet or other painful operation. This doesn’t work logically because the solipsist will state that he or she or whatever has no control over the alters. Anyway enjoy you last life as much as you can. Perhaps listen to F. J. Haydn’s String Quartets, they have been making me much happier and sadder, IOW alive. Yes, I’m Walter from TO, lost track of you. The group is just little fun without you.