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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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Posted on: July 14, 2008 7:57 AM, by John S. Wilkins
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Spellcorrecting and adding publisher and ISBN to what I said on the linked-to blog:
As a student of a student of John Archibald Wheeler, whose death I mourned earlier this year, I could not help but notice this Australian novel of Science Fiction:
Striped Holes, by Damien Broderick, NY: Avon,
ISBN-13: 9780380753772
ISBN: 0380753774
Posted by: Jonathan Vos Post | July 14, 2008 11:23 AM