Talk on natural classification 23 Mar 2011 If anyone happens to be near the University of New South Wales on Friday, I’m giving a talk on natural classification. Come and heckle (or Haeckel). Administrative Natural Classification AdministrativeNatural Classification
Administrative Well, I’m in Sydney 2 Feb 2009 … but my furniture, clothes and importantly bedding aren’t. So I sleep on the floor tonight. Also I’m having horrible times trying to get the University of Sydney’s IT to give me access (it seems not to like Google Mail or Firefox). So blogging and replies will be slow for… Read More
Administrative Testing Tweet Embedding 1 Oct 201110 Oct 2011 Using a hint from here: http://twitter.com/#!/john_s_wilkins/status/119905993344827394 http://twitter.com/#!/john_s_wilkins/status/119905698241978368 http://twitter.com/#!/john_s_wilkins/status/119905579950026752 http://twitter.com/#!/john_s_wilkins/status/119765002872827905 Testing LaTeX embedding: [latex]H= -K\sum^{n}_{i=1} p(i) \log p(i)[/latex] [latex]d(x, y) = \alpha f(X – Y) + \beta f(Y – X) – \theta f(X – Y) \quad \alpha, \beta,\theta \geq 0[/latex] Read More
Biology Darwin and Blumenbach 28 Oct 200918 Sep 2017 I recently became aware that the probable originator of the “biological” species concept, which I prefer to call the Reproductive Isolation Species Conception*, or RISC, was Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840). He presented this in his doctoral thesis On the natural varieties of mankind (1776), and I missed putting it in… Read More