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 • Philosophy of Science • Species and systematics
Posted on: December 19, 2007 9:38 PM, by John S. Wilkins
A little while back I published an article on species concepts in Reports of the National Center for Science Education, and I just discovered that it is available on the web. This is actually abetter format than the published version, which has weird columns and layout. The citation is
Wilkins, John S. 2006. Species, Kinds, and Evolution. Reports of the National Center for Science Education 26 (4): 36-45.
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You were trying to explain some of this to me in NYC back in '05, but I think I must have completely missed your point. I was also surprised that Linneus---who produced all the evidence for common descent---was a fixed-species creationist. I knew he had once questioningly (mistakenly?) referred to a plant variety as "a daughter of time" but I suppose that must have been late in life.
I can use some of this, thanks.
Posted by: John Vreeland | December 21, 2007 8:40 AM