More on why Brian Blessed is a monkey 26 Apr 201126 Apr 2011 If this worked, you should see a rather nice, if occasionally naughty language using, discussion of the point I made I little while ago why we should redefine terms like “monkey” to include humans. Sorry John Hawks… Evolution Natural Classification Species and systematics Systematics
Evolution Sociobiology 4: individuals as groups, and a summary 21 Nov 200718 Sep 2017 This is the fourth of a series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Wilson and Wilson (W&W) then continue on to employ some recent work on individuals as groups, and the “major transitions” literature. Read More
Evolution Myth 7: Darwin thought that Australian aborigines were closer to apes than to Europeans 1 Mar 200925 Oct 2019 Actually, this one is better called “Darwin was a racist”, but as the text concerned is from the same source as those claims, I thought it might be easier to evaluate a single claim and generalise from that. Our gospel for today is chapters V and VI of The Descent… Read More
Epistemology You and me, baby, ain't nothing but mammals 7 Apr 2010 The song of the title of this post is a catchy and highly amusing piece that suggests that if we’re just mammals we should have sex. It’s sort of a low brow version of Andrew Marvell’s To his coy mistress. Instead of Time’s wingéd chariot, we should do what mammals… Read More
“my dog’s a cat but he’s really fat and I shove him under the welcome mat doesn’t know where he’s going to and he doesn’t know where he’s been” Dag Nasty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwD6B3dRY8Y&feature=youtu.be