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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 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.
This blog is designed evolved to host any random thoughts that happen to be passing through my forebrain at a given moment. So there will be errors...
I also have an Australia-focussed blog: The Drought Resistant Philosopher
The previous instantiation of this blog is accessible here.
September 28, 2008
Category: Evolution
Readers know I think religion is post-agricultural, which raises some difficulties if we find evidence of organised religious behaviours before the onset of agriculture. The case in point here being Göbeli Tepe. Now a recent model of the process...
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 8:57 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Administrative
I note with alarums that nobody has nominated any of my posts for the forthcoming Open Laboratory 2008 book that Bora and others are preparing. Maybe my quality has dropped, but if you think there's one worth including, do nominate...
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 6:48 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Evolution
It all began with Larry Arnhart giving a "Darwinian" account of the case for financial bailouts. Then David Sloan Wilson rejected the argument from the Invisible Hand. Then Massimo Pigliucci entered the fray. What's at issue?...
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 9:54 AM • 7 Comments •
September 27, 2008
Category: Evolution
If any of my readers are good knitters, check this out: The pattern, not the girl. Preverts! Hat tip: Colin Purrington...
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 8:22 PM • 15 Comments •
Category: Politics
Some threat display has publicly occurred between two primates vying for the alpha male position of a large troop of feral, introduced, great apes in north America. It is examined here. Apparently one of the contenders failed to make...
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 6:57 PM • 8 Comments •
September 25, 2008
Category: General Science
I can't believe I saw this before Bora did: Hat tip the heekster on talk.origins...
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 6:15 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Humor
Oddly enough, this doesn't bother me in the slightest... Your result for The Which Discworld Character Am I Test...Susan Sto Helit As Death's granddaughter (a long story, which you greatly dislike), you inherited his ultimate practicality and lack of...
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 5:56 AM • 22 Comments •
September 24, 2008
Category: Basic Concepts
SPECIAL NOTE:This page and its subordinate pages will no longer be updated. See the new page at my new blog for the live version, and change all your subscriptions. Thank you. This is a list of the Basic Concepts posts...
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 1:40 PM • •
September 23, 2008
Category: Biodiversity
There's a guest post at the Panda's Thumb by myrmidon Alex Wild on the new "primitive" ant just reported. Go read it....
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 2:31 AM • 1 Comments •
September 22, 2008
Category: General Science
Science blogging is a relatively new phenomenon, the impact of which is slowly becoming clear. Gone are the days when an albino silverback philosopher was a top ranking science blogger (I am quite happy to be a philosophy of...
Posted by John S. Wilkins at 8:55 PM • 11 Comments •
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