My species book receives a Choice award 11 Feb 202011 Feb 2020 I am delighted to tell you that my book Species: The Evolution of the Idea has received a 2019 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Award! The book met the meticulous Choice criteria from originality, uniqueness, and importance in building undergraduate library collections, to overall excellence in presentation and value to undergraduate students. Eleven of my publisher Taylor & Francis’ [CRC Press] books received the 2019 Outstanding Academic Title Award and, of these, two were from the Species and Systematics book series: Species: The Evolution of the Idea – John S. WilkinsWhat Species Mean – A User’s Guide to the Units of Biodiversity – Julia D. Sigwart Julia will be a contributor to the edited book I am presently working on with Frank Zachos and Igor Pavlinov – Species and Beyond also with CRC Press. Congratulations to her. Philosophy Science Species and systematics Species concept
Epistemology 3QD Philosophy prize 4 Sep 2010 The 3QuarksDaily website is running its second Prize in Philosophy which has a convenient wrap up of some good philosophy posts. Most of them, though, are your usual deep ethics, metaphysics and epistemology, which is too deep for the likes of me. Still, you may find them worth reading and… Read More
Epistemology Bayes, evolutionary clocks, and biogeography 30 Mar 20122 Apr 2012 I just received a review by Gareth Nelson of Michael Heads’ book Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics (publishers’ site). I should have blogged this before, since I got a copy, being on the editorial board for this series (the same one I published with at Uni Calif Press), but I have… Read More
Looks like a useful award to win – I presume it means the university libraries will all get a copy now.