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New faces on the blogohedron

By laelaps on January 5, 2009.

  • I'm a little late to the game on this tidbit, but in case you haven't heard, please welcome the newest addition to the Sb family, Rebecca Skloot! She's a (*GASP*) journalist who has written some fantastic pieces for the New York Times and she also has a new book in the works called The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Her blog, Culture Dish, can be found here.

  • Anne-Marie Hodge, author of Pondering Pikaia, is one of my favorite science bloggers, and she has just started up a new science blog on the Nature Network. Even though Pondering Pikaia will remain active, Anne-Marie will be shifting most of her science posts to the new blog, Endless Forms. Be sure to check it out!

  • Another of my favorite bloggers, Michael Barton, has moved The Dispersal of Darwin to Wordpress. You can keep up with his excellent work here.
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As someone who can never find enough science-related information on the net, I'm very excited to see the new blogs. And having a real journalist, Rebecca Skloot, writing her own blog makes it that much better (I don't use that word much these days, and when I do, it usually has quotation marks around it!) To the new bloggers, congratulations! P.S. Raptor Lewis, I believe Laelaps was the original name of the carnivorous dinosaur that was re-named Dryptosaurus (Laelaps was already taken.)

By Raymond Minton (not verified) on 05 Jan 2009 #permalink

Darwin plagiarizes to Pierre Tremaux?

I leave you the link to scientific paper that it affirms that to the idea of allopatric speciation borrow of a book of Pierre Tremaux.

Trémaux on species: A theory of allopatric speciation (and punctuated equilibrium) before Wagner

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00003806/

Tremaux's Book: Origine et transformations de lhomme et des autres êtres, 1865″ http://fon.gs/tremaux-book-google/

As the author of that article, let me say that in no way do we argue that Darwin plagiarised Tremaux. We instead say that it is likely Darwin responded to Tremaux's ideas by refining a passage in the 4th edition of the Origin, which is a very different and quite legitimate thing to do for a scientist.