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Snowflake Grumpafudamus 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 a position as a 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.

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Neil Young gets his own web presence

Category: BiodiversityHumorSpecies and systematics
Posted on: May 13, 2008 6:17 AM, by John S. Wilkins

No, not the use of Java to archive his music. This presence: A trapdoor spider named after him.

This cute fellow:

Spider-385 336750A

Hat tip: David Williams

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Yeah, read about that in the news. Totally cool.

I listened to my first Neil Young record---After the Goldrush---when I was 12 years old, and I was instantly hooked. Still am. Sort of strongly resonated with a certain melancholy disposition, I guess.

^_^J.

Posted by: gyokusai | May 14, 2008 7:39 PM

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