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Allopatric Speciation, Alloneossic Taxonation

2020.06.07 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Old bookplate, A diverse variety of fish species

Allopatric speciation & sympatric speciation examine mating barriers and geographic location; alloneossic taxonation adds in adaptation and niche shift.

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Posted in: Biology, Books Tagged: Darwin Dada, Large Evolution, Small Evolution

Punctuated Equilibria: The Improbability Drive

2020.04.26 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
∞ Improbability Drive

Somewhere between the New Synthesis and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, the theory of Punctuated Equilibria appeared, but it needs an Improbability Drive.

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Posted in: Biology, Books Tagged: Darwin Dada

Are Colleges Too Liberal?

2016.05.27 by Bookscrounger 10 Comments

Some years back, conservative columnist George F. Will argued that colleges are too liberal.

If liberalism means the freedom to consider new ideas, what else would we expect?

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Posted in: Knowledge, Politics Tagged: Liberal and Conservative, Tolerance, Wisdom

Pejoratives, Slurs, and Semantic Change

2016.03.30 by Bookscrounger 7 Comments

Through semantic change, normal words become pejoratives & slurs.  The real problem is often a discomfort with the situation.

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Posted in: Odds & Ends, Politics Tagged: Language, Tolerance

Sabotaging Children: Living on the Edge

2016.03.28 by Bookscrounger 1 Comment

In the past when we were living on the edge, sabotaging children was the only prudent course of action.

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Posted in: Education, Politics Tagged: Civilizing Evolution, Intellectual Abuse, Kings Conquerors Psychopaths, Liberal and Conservative, Teaching

On Prejudice

2016.03.21 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment

The real problem with prejudice is closed-mindedness: too often our first impression – our prejudice – remains our only impression.

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Posted in: Knowledge, Medicine, Politics Tagged: Hammer Thinking, Liberal and Conservative, Partisan Politics, Wisdom

Wasp Evolution & Animal Urbanization

2016.01.04 by Bookscrounger 1 Comment

The evidence of wasp evolution around my home is an example of animal urbanization, i.e., how living things adapt to encroaching humanity.

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Posted in: Biology Tagged: Civilizing Evolution, Small Evolution

The Black Death, Perfume, and Tobacco Addiction

2015.12.21 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Smoking skull.

Could tobacco addiction and the perfume industry be a legacy from the Black Death of the 14th century?

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Posted in: Biology, Medicine Tagged: Small Evolution

The Limits of Evolutionary Pressure

2020.05.30 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Industrial melanism, tan and near-black versions of the scalloped hazel moth, Odontopera bidentata

Industrial melanism illustrates evolutionary pressure/selection pressure. But in punctuated equilibria and large evolution, selection pressure won’t work.

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Posted in: Biology, Books Tagged: Darwin Dada, Evolution, Large Evolution, Small Evolution, Sociobiology

Microevolution, Macroevolution, Small Evolution, Large Evolution

2020.05.18 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Archaeopteryx fossil.

Punctuated equilibria makes a case for shifting from microevolution & macroevolution, to ‘small evolution’ & ‘large evolution.’

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Posted in: Biology, Books Tagged: Darwin Dada, Evolution, Small Evolution

Language as Phenotype: Speculative Etymology

2020.05.13 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
A pedigree showing King Lear and his three daughters on the 15th century Canterbury Roll.

A bit of speculative etymology demonstrating language as phenotype.  It all starts at birth.  Literally…

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Posted in: Biology, Books Tagged: Language

The Deadliest Animal vs the Best Predator

2020.03.10 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Best Predator

What is the deadliest animal in America?  And is the best predator the deadliest animal, or the most beneficial?

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Posted in: Biology, Books Tagged: Darwin Dada, Evolution, Small Evolution

Character Displacement, Language Replacement

2020.03.10 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
A jumble of letters, like the jumble of language

Character displacement in biology is similar to language replacement in linguisitics: languages compete, evolve, and even go extinct.

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Posted in: Biology, Books Tagged: Darwin Dada, Evolution, Small Evolution, Sociobiology

Biological Evolution & Language Evolution

2020.03.03 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Language evolution: Tree showing the relationship of Uralic languages, and languages descended from Proto-Indo-European

Language evolution can resemble biological evolution. This is an example of how biology can provide insights about innovation in non-biochemical systems.

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Posted in: Biology, Books Tagged: Civilizing Evolution, Darwin Dada, Evolution, fundamentalism, Language, Small Evolution, Sociobiology

The Struggle for Existence: The Lovely Deathscape

2020.02.24 by Bookscrounger 7 Comments
Dead bird on the ground

Nature is beautiful, but it’s really a lovely deathscape: the struggle for existence is everywhere, and only the trees die of old age.

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Posted in: Biology, Books Tagged: Darwin Dada, Evolution, Small Evolution

The First Law of Biology: Malthusian Superfecundity

2020.02.16 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Irish Famine Memorial, Dublin; statues of emaciated victims

The first law of biology is Malthusian superfecundity: All species produce more offspring than can survive. Humanity is not exempt.

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Posted in: Biology, Books Tagged: Sociobiology
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