Wheeler on Yoon on species 8 Aug 2009 Quentin Wheeler has an interesting discussion of the recent book Naming Nature by Carol Kaesuk Yoon; in which he (rightly) dismisses her apparent claim (I haven’t read the book) that species are subjective. Go read it. Species and systematics Species concept Systematics
Biology New book on climate and human evolution 10 Mar 2010 I hope this works and WordPress doesn’t strip out the HTML code [later note: It did]. This looks like an interesting book, although its evolutionary tree is a bit old fashioned, almost Haeckelian. Read More
Evolution What makes special creationism special? 25 Dec 20074 Oct 2017 It is the default opinion of those who accept evolution and those who deny it, that before Darwin, or Lamarck at any rate, everyone was a special creationist. Even Darwin implies in the Origin that if one is not a transformist with regards to species, one is a special creationist…. Read More
Humor Me in Spanish 5 Jun 2010 I just love seeing my ideas in another language, not because I speak or read them (I am Australian. We don’t even speak English well. We’re submonoglots), but because it always looks so much more intelligent in French or, as in this case, Spanish. Eduardo Robredo Zugasti has noticed my… Read More