Tom Waits on Entomology 13 Nov 2009 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBkyaJqQ-50] Biology Ecology and Biodiversity Species and systematics
Evolution Did some dinosaurs survive the K-T boundary 20 Jun 2007 A new paper in New Mexico Geology has the following rather tendentious title: Fassett, J.E. 2007. The documentation of in-place dinosaur fossils in the Paleocene Ojo Alamo Sandstone and Animas Formation in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Colorado mandates a paradigm shift: dinosaurs can no longer be… Read More
Evolution A periodic table of insects? More thoughts on classification 25 Aug 201225 Aug 2012 Seen by Malte Ebach at the XXIV International Conference of Entomology in South Korea: What’s fun about this (to a philosopher of taxonomy) is why a periodic table doesn’t serve to classify taxa in biology like this. Instead we get this: [From here] The answer is that elements are, and… Read More
Biology Evopsychopathy 3: The explanatory target 9 Dec 20122 Jan 2013 In the Bad Old Days, biologists, including Darwin, used to speak of “instinct” as an inherited trait of organisms. Darwin has a comment in his Notebooks It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another. — We consider those, when the intellectual faculties [/] cerebral structure most… Read More