Category Archives: Systematics
A local talk
HPS book celebration at the University of Melbourne
Species-related publications
What’s a personal blog for, if not to blow my own horn? Well, it can only be to blow the horns of those who I…
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How to do numerical taxonomy
Hint: use only original IBM punch cards
Posted by in Philosophy, Systematics
The first phylogeny
The only diagram in the Origin is famously the hypothetical series of species forming a tree structure, but it isn’t an actual classification based on his…
Posted by in Evolution, Natural Classification, Systematics
Do we need, and can we get, a single authoritative list of species?
In a recent paper, Garnett et al. [2020] have set up what they refer to as the principles for creating a single authoritative list of all…
Posted by in Biology, Philosophy, Species concept, Systematics
Putnam on taxonomic terms
Terms with respect to which we defer to experts include both technical terms in science and such terms as ‘elm’ or ‘beech’ (in the United…
Posted by in Philosophy, Species and systematics, Systematics
Is racism Christian?
I was taught that racism developed out of Johannes Blumenbach’s Anthropological Treatises in the late eighteenth century, specifically his doctoral thesis On the Natural Variety…
Posted by in history, Philosophy, Race and politics, Religion, Species and systematics, Systematics
Draft of talk, for comment
I will be presenting this talk in Brisbane in a few weeks. Have a look and make suggestions.
Posted by in history, Natural Classification, Species and systematics, Systematics