One man's struggle against impermanence
John Wilkins is an eternal student, who thinks philosophy of biology is at least as interesting as politics or sport and twice as important. He has a PhD from the University of Melbourne and worked at the University of Queensland, in Australia, before taking up a research fellowship at the University of Sydney. After a varied career, involving factories, gardening, civil service, publishing, graphics, public relations but not, unfortunately for the CV, driving a truck, John finally completed his thesis on species concepts in 2004, which he has worked into two books.
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Category: Evolution • Logic and philosophy • Species and systematics
Posted on: April 21, 2007 12:50 AM, by John S. Wilkins
Yesterday was Willi Hennig's birthday. Hennig invented cladistics (though he called it "phylogenetic systematics"), which is the foundation for all modern taxonomy. Frölich Geburtstag, Willi!
Via Paleoblog.
Oops, my mistake. Philosophers are not always good at math.
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The linked blog says 1913. That would make yesterday his 94th birthday.
Posted by: Peter Midford | April 21, 2007 1:42 AM