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Evolution List (Free subscription) | yesterday
Since the first reports of the origin of a new species of finch on the island of Daphne Major in the Galapagos archipelago appeared, there has been a flood of questions about just what exactly it was that Peter and Rosemary Grant observed, and how their observations relate to the larger question of macroevolution . As many evolutionary biologists (including me) anticipated, creationists and intelligent...
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Repository of Useless Information (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Shelter Winery (Hans-Bert Espe und Silke Wolf) Blanc de Noir 2008 - Baden; 12% abv; 10g/l RS; 8,8g/l acidity; bottle #274 of 2698; 20€ The great evolutionary biologist and philosopher of biology, Ernst Mayr, felt that the natural sciences for much of history have been plagued by Platonic essentialism. It is the idea, further developed by Aristotle, that all things had two properties, the accidental...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
James Mallet is out to rehabilitate Charles Darwin`s reputation on species. It may seem strange that such a founding father of modern biological thought as Darwin could run afoul of something so basic, but biologists over past decades, including such giants as Harvard`s Ernst Mayr, perceived Darwin`s understanding of species as somewhat fuzzy.
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