Skip to main content
Advertisment
Home

Main navigation

  • Life Sciences
  • Physical Sciences
  • Environment
  • Social Sciences
  • Education
  • Policy
  • Medicine
  • Brain & Behavior
  • Technology
  • Free Thought
  1. evolvingthoughts
  2. Where Wilkins?

Where Wilkins?

  • email
  • facebook
  • linkedin
  • X
  • reddit
  • print
Profile picture for user evolvingthoughts
By evolvingthoughts on January 31, 2007.

Can't talk. Eating. Paper. Grant application. Start of School Year for Son. Eating...

Reading this:

"Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology" (Massimo Pigliucci, Jonathan Kaplan)

and this:



"Darwinian Reductionism: Or, How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology" (Alex Rosenberg)

Do likewise...

Tags
Administrative
evolution
humor
Logic and philosophy

More like this

Advertisment

Donate

ScienceBlogs is where scientists communicate directly with the public. We are part of Science 2.0, a science education nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Please make a tax-deductible donation if you value independent science communication, collaboration, participation, and open access.

You can also shop using Amazon Smile and though you pay nothing more we get a tiny something.

 

Science 2.0

  • Heel-Toe Mobility Separated Humans From Lesser Primates
  • Inconsistency Of EV Battery Pack Performance Remains A Challenge
  • Climate Change Linked To Greater Arctic Earthquakes
  • Why Understanding the Human Condition Remains One of Science’s Great Challenges 
  • Epidemiology: Microplastics Cause Lung Cancer

Science Codex

More by this author

My new blog
August 7, 2009
For those who come here from old links, my new blog address is evolvingthoughts.net This blog is no longer active.
Evolving Thoughts moves
May 23, 2009
So it is farewell... I have enjoyed blogging here at Seed, who have been generally very good to me given the constraints of herding cats with string they are working under, but it is time to move on. The neighborhood became a little hostile to old fashioned fogies like me, and that's all we need to…
We will resume transmission as soon as we can
May 20, 2009
There's some reorganising of my life and blogging going on. I'll announce all the changes to links and stuff in a fortnight or less. Please excuse the dust and noise of the construction behind the plastic sheets.
No, it's not an ancestor either (probably)
May 19, 2009
In addition to the "missing link" trope that is being dished out about the new primate fossil, is another one, more subtle and insidious: it's the ancestor of all primates. How do they know that? Consider a biologically realistic scenario: at the time there were probably hundreds of species of…
Alpha Fail
May 18, 2009

More reads

Scleractinian corals in many forms
Scleractinian corals, also known as stony corals -- or just hard corals -- are the primary reef builders in the oceans. Their polyps secrete calcium carbonate to form a skeleton. A minority of species live as single polyps, but most stony coral species are colonial, and the structures they build 'grow' over time. They form a myriad of shapes: mounds, branches, fingers, plates, and…
Race and gender and religion
America is a very religious country, and has been for a long time.  Regardless of broad cultural revolutions and trends in the culture wars, about the same number of people say religion is "very important" in their lives today as 35 years ago. Other measure of religiosity shift, as Gallup points out.  "Self-reported church or synagogue membership has drifted slowly downward over the…
Luis Chiappe's Glorified Dinosaurs: The Origin and Early Evolution of Birds
I read a lot of books in 2010, and mostly enjoyed all of them. Among my favourites was Luis Chiappe's Glorified Dinosaurs: The Origin and Early Evolution of Birds, and in the lengthy review article below (currently in press for Historical Biology) you can find what I thought of it. Note that Glorified Dinosaurs is not especially new (it appeared in 2007): it typically takes a few years for…

© 2006-2026 Science 2.0. All rights reserved. Privacy statement. ScienceBlogs is a registered trademark of Science 2.0, a science media nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions are fully tax-deductible.