One man's struggle against impermanence
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...
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Charles Darwin's classic definition of the ecological causes ("struggle for existence") and genetic consequences of selection ... can be restated in modern scientific language as follows: Natural/sexual selection is the ecological interactions an organism has with ((1) the physical conditions of the environment, (2) individuals of other species, and (3) individuals of the same species that affects the number of times the organism successfully reproduces the genes the organism is carrying.
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