Obit: Chris Humphries 18 Aug 2009 The Telegraph in the UK has an obituary for Chris Humphries, the botanist and systematist who died recently. Humphries was also a major player in the use of biogeography for conservation. Biology Ecology and Biodiversity Species and systematics Systematics
Quotes Mill on species and Kinds 21 Dec 201121 Dec 2011 … every Kind (and a species must be a Kind) is distinguished from other Kinds, not by any one attribute, but by an indefinite number. Man, for instance, is a species of the genus animal: Rational (or rationality, for it is of no consequence here whether we use the concrete or the… Read More
History Wilkins on radio 12 Dec 2010 Here. The actual recording is not being played until 23 January… Read More
Evolution Lynch’s challenge to the Orang crowd 7 Jul 2009 Further to the claim I mentioned a while back, on orangutans being the closest species to humans, not chimps, John Lynch has a post up on the phylogeny of ERV sequences in the great apes which show, independently of the methods that Grehan and Schwartz criticised. He asks how they… Read More
To all readers, Chris was very accommodating person, and he is very knowledgeable specially on biology. he may rest in peace, my condolonces to the family. Dholor