Size matters 13 Jan 201213 Jan 2012 As always, click on the image to go see the entire Tony Piro goodness Evolution Humor
Book Wimsatt on… everything 5 Nov 200718 Sep 2017 Bill Wimsatt is one of the philosophy of biology’s underappreciated performers. Many of his takes on biology have influenced a great many people, including me. Here is an interview with him on his latest book Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality (Harvard Press, 2007). According to the… Read More
Biology Evopsychopathy 5: Conclusion 2 Jan 20133 Jan 2013 The criticisms of evolutionary psychology and its predecessors sociobiologies 1 through 3 focus on three major points: 1. It is adaptively-biased; 2. It is gene-centric (or biological determinist, which amounts to the same thing); 3. It is culturally biased in favour of the privileged classes of the people making the… Read More
Evolution Another stupid piece of DNA worship 9 Feb 2008 By Matt Ridley, in Time: … by the end of this century, if not sooner, biotechnology may have reached the point where it can take just about any DNA recipe and read off a passable 3-D interpretation of the animal it would create. So long as you also know the… Read More
So why are plantain bigger? And what about pineapple? (there is a joke surrounding fruit size but it’s not PC, and is best told in a pub)