Small world 31 Oct 2007 Here is an article in Harvard Magazine on bacteria and other wee beasties that make up the bulk of the living world, that is worth reading. It’s called “The Undiscovered Planet”. Hat tip to Jason Grossman. Ecology and Biodiversity Evolution General Science Species and systematics
Book More FAPPery 27 Apr 2010 Another review of What Darwin got wrong, by Kenan Malik, at The Literary Review. The money quote: Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini are no creationists, but ‘outright, card-carrying, signed-up, dyed-in-the-wool, no-holds-barred atheists’. That, however, only makes worse the incoherence of their understanding of Darwinism. There is much that Darwin got wrong, from… Read More
Ethics and Moral Philosophy Researchers teach gorilla existential angst 31 Mar 2010 I love The Onion. They even get the species right. Read More
Evolution Genesis 2 rewritten 5 Jun 200724 Nov 2022 It is also likely that if God re-issued Genesis 2, he’d do it as a comic strip like this. Oops I forgot to link it… fixed now. Read More
But we knew this already, eh? The web-of-life concept that is always is the background, sussurating like insects in the night. From Jacques Cousteau to Richard Attenborough (sp?) and from Marlin Perkins to Carl Sagan, popular culture echoes with this idea. We also suspected it when we were small and got caught up watching bees and flowers, ants and sand grains, birds and wind. No surprise that it extends so deeply into the realm of the tiny and unseen. Evidence that it extends into realms much larger than us is also at hand, thanks to telescopes complimenting microscopes. What I like most is that this sense of connectedness has clear, observable evidence with which to show itself!