My species article online at RNCSE 19 Dec 2007 A little while back I published an article on species concepts in Reports of the National Center for Science Education, and I just discovered that it is available on the web. This is actually abetter format than the published version, which has weird columns and layout. The citation is Wilkins, John S. 2006. Species, Kinds, and Evolution. Reports of the National Center for Science Education 26 (4): 36-45. Evolution Species and systematics
Biology It was 150 years ago tomorrow 23 Nov 2009 … Sergeant Pepper… oops, sorry, wrong theme. 150 years ago tomorrow, people suddenly became smart, observant and able to understand the world. Right? Right? Well, look, I have enormous respect for Darwin, and I think the Origin is a cool and interesting book, but really, no. People were working on… Read More
Creationism and Intelligent Design Irreducible complexity robotics 29 Dec 201121 Jun 2018 Click on the image to go to the comic. Read More
Evolution NYT article on genes 10 Nov 2008 Here, by the incredibly young, handsome and way too successful Carl Zimmer, late of the Seed stable. Carl brings to mind my favourite Truman Capote saying: It is not enough to succeed. Friends must be seen to have failed. Anyway, go read the bastard’s excellent essay. I will just sit… Read More
You were trying to explain some of this to me in NYC back in ’05, but I think I must have completely missed your point. I was also surprised that Linneus—who produced all the evidence for common descent—was a fixed-species creationist. I knew he had once questioningly (mistakenly?) referred to a plant variety as “a daughter of time” but I suppose that must have been late in life. I can use some of this, thanks.