Species: The evolution of the idea
I have completed and submitted the manuscript now for my revision of Species: A history of the idea, now renamed Species: the evolution of the idea. I am publishing it with CRC Press, and it is due out...
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My revised book is now titled Species: The evolution of the idea, and now contains a philosophy section as well as a complete list of species concept[ion]s and an appendix of all taxonomic levels I...
View ArticleIn defence of taxonomists [plus ça change]
I sympathize with the physiologist or ecologist, who after he has written a luminous paper on a Cratoegus or Viola, or Rosa, or Opuntia, endeavors to ascertain the proper name for his plant; but I do...
View ArticleWhat was Darwin’s Origin actually called
There’s a technical issue with the site, so the images aren’t displaying. You can click on where the image should be to see the page. So, I got caught parroting half-remembered factoids, to Down House...
View ArticleLucretius and the papal secretary
In 1417, during the Council of Constance that reunited the Catholic Church in the west, a papal secretary took advantage of the location in Germany…Continue readingLucretius and the papal secretary
View ArticleJohn Ray
This has been submitted as an entry in the Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, and it is offered here for your delectation and delight… Title…Continue readingJohn Ray
View ArticleDraft of talk, for comment
I will be presenting this talk in Brisbane in a few weeks. Have a look and make suggestions.
View ArticleIs racism Christian?
I was taught that racism developed out of Johannes Blumenbach’s Anthropological Treatises in the late eighteenth century, specifically his doctoral thesis On the Natural Variety…Continue readingIs...
View ArticleJohn Ray on species fixity and race
For since in nature the number of species is fixed and determined, since ‘God on the sixth day rested from all his labour’, that is,…
View ArticleIll of the dead
I have found it necessary, in the course of this volume, to speak of the departed; for the misgovernment of the Royal Society has not…
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