Thoughtful comments from Laura Betzig about George Williams’ contributions and what he has meant to many of us. Also see other obituaries. ————————– It bothers me that so little is being said about George...
I recently completed reading one of the most stimulating books (1) on the conceptual aspects of evolution that I have read in many years. The author, Peter Godfrey-Smith is a philosopher of biology at Harvard. He has written widely on topics in the...
In an 1858 humorous poem The Deacon’s Masterpiece, or the Wondeful One Hoss Shay, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. described a carriage so artfully constructed as to have no weakest link. The carriage ran smoothly for exactly a hundred years, and then one day it went...
According to an article, in 2005, by Nicholas Wade of The New York Times, the notion that human evolution had effectively stalled in the distant past (i.e., 50,000 years ago) had been widely accepted. As recently as 2007, the eminent Harvard psychologist, author, and...
Diseases, human history and co-evolution with pathogens Peter Gluckman and Tatjana Buklijas Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Leprosy and kuru may at first glance seem to be diseases with little in common, except, perhaps, their large...
