Tom Waits on Entomology 13 Nov 2009 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBkyaJqQ-50] Biology Ecology and Biodiversity Species and systematics
Biology On vitalism 2 Dec 2009 I came across this quote: In our recent science the Aristotelian doctrine is not dead. For but little changed, though dressed in new garments, this Aristotelian entelechy, which so fascinated Leibnitz, enters into the Vitalism of Hans Driesch; and of those who believe with him, that far as physical laws… Read More
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
Evolution Blumenbach on the unity of the human species, and on species 19 Mar 200918 Sep 2017 Johann Friedrich Blumenbach is often criticised for his racial classification and supposed racism, but in this work, published in 1775, he not only argues for the unity of the human species, but in other passages for their general equality of intelligence, contrary to the use his ideas were later put… Read More