It’s Time to Get Serious About Taxonomy
Filed in Primatology, Science Issues, February 27, 2008, 12:59 pmWe have a rant today.
I’ve been doing the research for my next “meet an ancestor” today, and I keep coming across one word, “Cebidae.” Apparently, the ecology of our ancestor’s genus was similar to that of the Cebidae. Well, that’s quite interesting, or at least it would be if I knew at all what the [...]
Meet a Contemporary: Pongo abelii
Filed in Meet a Contemporary, February 20, 2008, 9:13 pmSorry I haven’t been being terribly faithful with these “Meet a …” things, but I’ve been otherwise engaged for the past week or so. Our very first Meet a Contemporary is at once easy and hard to compose a profile on: Easy because it’s an orangutan and you can find about anything you want on [...]
Happy Darwin Day!!
Filed in Science Issues, February 11, 2008, 9:20 pmIt’s Darwin Day tomorrow! Go forth and share with your friends, loved ones, aquantances, hated ones, and so forth all the Glorious wonders of science, reason, and heathen Darwin-worship. And be sure to burn the proper offerings of sacrificial finches and barnacles.
Our Poor Geographical Minds
Filed in Archaeology, Rambling, , 9:12 pmI had to read Book XI of The Epic of Gilgamesh tonight for my Western Lit class. What really struck me was the depiction of the Flood. For those who aren’t familiar with The Epic, it is a Sumerian myth about a semi-legendary king and his travels, culminating in a journey to visit Utnapishtim, an [...]
Whither morality?
Filed in Human Evolution, Science Issues, February 10, 2008, 11:39 amI recently read the statement, “I don’t know about anyone else, but I find the entire idea of an ‘instinctive morality’ highly disturbing. If we are to shrink and over-simplify our entire moral code down to the existence of a single instinct, we do great harm to its purpose and application,” and I found [...]
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