Do you remember a series of posts I did on microbial species? Well it evolved into a paper that has just been accepted, with some very constructive criticisms by a reviewer, for History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. I thank all my commenters for suggestions and help.
This paper had a rough history - it was supposed to be included in another journal's special edition but the editor and reviewers seemed not to get the point of it (and, to be fair, a lot of the early drafts were a bit sloppy). But in the revision process I worked out some clearer ideas than I started with, and I am now a partisan for a current species "concept" - Alan Templeton's cohesion concept.
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Another group (in this case, pair) of scientists have come up with a species concept.
Wilkins has replied to my post on species concepts.
Just to let you know where things stand, I'm in the process of setting up the study. Some of the coding is a bit over my head, because I've never done this sort of thing on the web before.
Woot! Yeee-haaaw!
Congratulations!
Congratulations. Would you comment on the role working over these ideas on the blog played?
It helped me clarify my ideas enormously, but then that is a major reason for this blog. You all think I'm here to entertain you lot. It's actually the other way about...
Excellent (hear that in Monty Burns'voice).