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John Wilkins is an aged, 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 a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow Sessional Lecturer at the University of Queensland, in Australia. 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. Species Definitions: A Sourcebook (Peter Lang) will come out in 2008; Species: A History of an Idea (University of California Press) will appear, it is hoped, in early 2009. He is also interested in cultural evolution, philosophy of religion, Macintosh computers and his kids.
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The leeches are out in force
Category: Administrative
Posted on: April 24, 2008 3:29 AM, by John S. Wilkins





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Better yet, click the "Flag this blog" button at the top to unleash Blogger's wrath upon them
Posted by: Ed Yong | April 24, 2008 4:43 AM
You need to write to the team over at blogger. They HATE stuff like this, and are very happy to bring it down. Unfortunately, having a couple people flag it isn't going to do any good. They'll take a look, see that there is content, and assume it's ok. You need to tell someone WHY it shouldn't be there.
Posted by: dorid | April 24, 2008 9:51 AM
You probably want to nofollow your link, there. Otherwise you're helping the splog out quite a bit. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow)
Posted by: Dan McKinley | April 24, 2008 8:00 PM