Evolution A blast from my past is reasonable – shock! 14 Aug 2008 As I sit here, dying slowly and loudly from a dose of gastro and probably ‘flu (Australian male: we don’t do sick well), trying to distract myself from the efforts of my lower intestines to escape to Jamaica, I came across a name I recall all too well from my… Read More
Biology Book review: Understanding Evolution 15 Apr 201415 Apr 2014 I posted this on Panda’s Thumb, but I thought I would repeat it here. I occasionally get books for review unsolicited, and many of them are not worth noticing. However, Kostas Kampourakis’ Understanding Evolution is a wonderful resource for students of all kinds, including biology students. Kampourakis, a philosopher at Geneva, has… Read More
Evolution Virgin births 4 Dec 2007 Forget about the season; virgin births can happen any time of year… and anywhere. So there is an Ask a Scienceblogger question about virgin births. In zoology this is called “parthenogenesis” (which means “virgin birth”), and in botany it is either called “vegetative reproduction” (think: cuttings) or “apomixis”, in which… Read More
My copy of THE BOOK arrived today. Now if I’d known it was on sale already.. Given what you philosophers get up to on other threads however (NP? Lowenheim paradox?), how much will I take in, I wonder. But nothing venture… (Nothing venture, nothing win Blood is thick but water’s thin. In for a penny, in for a pound, It’s love that makes the world go round. WS Gilbert) Sorry, the second glass of wine and a liberal ingestion of red dust has strange effects…
It’s OK, I don’t do any serious metaphysics in that book. You can read it for enjoyment. I thought Sydney had just reacted to my spring cleaning.