New evolutionary blogger 27 Oct 2009 Sean Stan Rice, an evolutionary biologist at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, has started a blog: Honest-Ab (which he has named after a weed he once used in experiments; not noticing that it is named also after Theophrastus, Aristotle’s student who founded botany). Put it in your reader and watch it. Rice is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Evolution, so he may be presumed to know a thing or two… Evolution
Evolution 148 years ago today 24 Nov 2007 … a book was published that changed the way we thought of biology. Read More
Evolution Do bacteria think? 10 Dec 2007 Let’s suppose there is a game, say, baseball. This game is named and described for the ways that adult humans with bats, balls, and fields, behave normatively, as written up in an authoritative manual. Everybody knows what baseball is, or can point to an example of it. Along comes someone,… Read More
Book That’s not an Origin of Species; *this* is an Origin of Species 24 Sep 2009 I would strongly suggest that if you find Kirk Cameron’s “edition” of the Origin of Species that you quietly dispose of it in an environmentally conscious manner. However, if you want a good edition, I recommend this one by Jim Endersby, a well known historian of the nineteenth century, from… Read More