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New species book contract! – Evolving Thoughts
yuiami 2016/12/21
Books

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Darwin’s motivation
yuiami 2010/12/06
Darwin tries to explain homology by shared ancestry. In other words, we can know homology before we do about shared ancestry.

Darwin

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Evolution
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Darwin and Blumenbach
yuiami 2010/11/23
Blumenbach: the originator of BSC. B mentioned theory of evolution (more preformationistic one), but he didn't like it. Darwin read him when D was in the course of inventing his theory of evolution. He's also a precursor of interactionist conception of development.

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Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini on natural selection
yuiami 2010/11/19
FP's argument is based on referential opacity. But this is about what or how we talk, not the way the world is. See my notes on delicious.

Evolution

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Evolution quotes
yuiami 2010/06/25
TH Huxley, on the limitation of reproductive criterion of species. Cowslips and ***: varieties of the same kind, but little reproduction.

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Evolution
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New book on climate and human evolution
yuiami 2010/03/18
A phylo tree on human evolution

Evolution

HumanEvo
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Philosophy as forgetting, and index characters
yuiami 2010/02/26
Whewell: type. vague boundary. family resemblance. Generalization is not deductive. Mill: causal kind. surface properties are superficial properties (just index) Generalization is at best deducion from nec and suf properties (on the surface level, induction works).--> Modern notion of NK (Quine)

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Species in the news - Evolving Thoughts
yuiami 2009/12/22
Identifying the right species has practical benefits: three cases.

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Darwinian evolution for culture
yuiami 2009/12/09
Misunderstandings about cultural evolution. One doesn't have to commit to memetics to discuss CE. etc.

Evolution
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Some stuff while I'm in DC - Evolving Thoughts
yuiami 2009/11/04
JW's comments on Rieppel's response to Reydon's critique on OR's concept of species. Comment on the finding that dorosophila species have mechanism to inhibit hybrids.

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Travel Diary 5
yuiami 2009/11/04
Hybrid between primates and "higher" animals.

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What came before Darwin
If ever you wondered what the “default” view was before the modern era began with the late 18th century naturalists, culminating in Darwin, regarding the natural world, this passage, from a philosopher with the odiferous name William Smellie, gives a complete summary. From Smellie, William. 1791. The philosophy of natural history. Philadelphia: Robert Campbell, pp463-469. CHAPTER XXII. Of the Prog
yuiami 2009/10/06
Excerpt from Bill Smellie. A standard view before Darwin. Emphasis on interdependence and continuum of species. This shows benevolence of God (appealing to ecological stability?). Observation of minute differences between species, though.

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Evolution
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Counterintuition: Bdelloid Rotifers
yuiami 2009/10/05
How does overgeneralization in biology occur: The organic world is so diverse that most biologists, with limited knowledge of a variety of organisms, cannot cover all of it.

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Atavisms and phylogeny
yuiami 2009/09/23
Species don't 'lose' characters like eyes of those living in cave. Rather they 'switch off' developmental pathways to those characters. Organisms are developmental systems. An example of a discovery of a snake having legs..

Evolution

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Some hominid evolution items
yuiami 2009/08/24
A report that hominid lineage and chimps were interbred for some time was argued against. Hobit may not be a distinct species.

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HumanEvo
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Essence
yuiami 2009/08/13
Essence: "It is an ancient scholastic word, which cannot be really defined, and should be banished from use. [W. S. Jevons, Elementary Lessons in Logic, 1870: 335

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Taxonomist’s revenge
yuiami 2009/06/22
Taxonomists' tradition: to name gruesome organisms after someone who they do not like. E.g., Linnaeus. Wheeler named some species after Bush, Chaney, and Ramsfeld.

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Linnaeus: the founder of databases
yuiami 2009/06/18
Linnaeus used index cards, which is a kind of database. Connection between logic and taxonomy: Jevons and Venn mentioned taxonomy in developting modern logic.

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