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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.

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Cleesing the God Gene

Posted on: September 14, 2008 9:56 PM, by John S. Wilkins

If I weren't such a reductionist mechanist, I'd probably find this very very funny. And what Cleese does to things deserves its own verb.

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1

another puzzle solved!
(by we scientists)

Posted by: Sven DiMilo | September 14, 2008 10:24 PM

2

Oh my,

John,thanks for that,that was so hilarious,I now have 31 more Cleese podcasts to watch !

Posted by: clinteas | September 14, 2008 11:42 PM

3

Don't worry, John. We have now developed a pill that can help you combat reductionist mechanist syndrome.

We don't know how it works, though.

Posted by: Bob O'H | September 15, 2008 12:55 AM

4

to cleesify:verb: to hold forth humorously on a subject in a pompous, pseudo-intellectual and slightly silly manner
cleesification:noun: the result of cleesifying
cleesified:adjective:
cleesifly:adverb:
origin: derived from the surname of legendary English humorist, actor, author and silly person John Cleese.

Posted by: Thony C. | September 15, 2008 5:41 AM

5

Luckily, I have the "Even though I'm a reductionist mechanist I still find jokes making fun of reductionist mechanists funny" gene. :D

Posted by: Wes | September 15, 2008 9:38 AM

6

That's recessive, and slightly deleterious...

Posted by: John S. Wilkins | September 15, 2008 9:44 AM

7

He is the Messiah, and I should know; I've followed a few!

Posted by: jeff | September 15, 2008 9:55 AM

8

Having recently met Rob Buckman, I have a John Cleese number of 2. I think that's worth boasting about (I mean, it's way better than having George W. Bush number of 2, which I also have).

Posted by: Eamon Knight | September 15, 2008 9:11 PM

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