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John M. Lynch is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University. He's also affiliated with ASU's Center for Biology & Society. When he's not an historian of anti-evolutionism, he's an evolutionary morphologist. Much to his surprise, in 2007 he was named the Arizona Professor of the Year. No doubt his students were surprised as well.
Category: Human Evolution
My colleague and friend Kaye Reed has a nice remembrance of Charlie Lockwood in the current issue of Evolutionary Anthropology. I had reason to mention Charlie during my "Last Lecture" and will admit to getting a little choked-up. The...
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Category: The Life Academic
Last night I was honored to be the first of three faculty members to take part in the 14th annual Last Lecture series here at ASU. The other two talks are next week. In the interests of completeness, I'm...
Posted by John Lynch at 11:37 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: The Life Academic
On Thursday I will give a "Last Lecture" at ASU. I'm one of three faculty chosen by students to deliver a talk as if it were our last ever. Here is a news story about the event and below is...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:08 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Anti-evolution
Next week there is a big conference here at ASU - hosted in conjunction with University of Cambridge - examining the concept of "Unchallengeable Orthodoxy in Academia and Science." The general purpose of the conference is: To critically examine the...
Posted by John Lynch at 4:29 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
I gave two talks yesterday. The first was at a luncheon for ASU’s chapter of Sigma Xi. A small crowd of largely retired scientists and engineers heard me give the same talk I gave in Norman last week. Naturally, given...
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Category: The Life Academic
Saturday was the last full day of the OSLEP course and we had the students thinking about religious and other reactions to Darwin’s ideas; three hours on St George Jackson Mivart, Alfred Russel Wallace, Ernst Haeckel, and Charles Kingsley, followed...
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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Not a bad article in the Norman Transcript which is apparently a fairly conservative paper. It will be interesting to see what happens in the comment thread over the next few hours....
Posted by John Lynch at 10:27 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Life Academic
Abbie (of ERV fame) and I after my talk at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Natural History Museum. It went well, I think. About 350 folks in the audience and the local NPR and PBS stations will apparently be offering...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:33 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Life Academic
I’m in Oklahoma at the moment (more anon perhaps) but was dismayed, to put it mildly, to see the following announcement come from ASU’s Provost: The funding lost in the recently revised FY09 state budget has forced Arizona State University...
Posted by John Lynch at 10:30 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anti-evolution
February is going to be a busy month for me. Sunday I leave for Oklahoma where I will be giving the lead-off public lecture for their Darwin 2009 Celebration. I will be speaking on the 12th at the Sam Noble...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:01 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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