Philosopause
Philosopher of science Kim Sterelny has written a review of the biographical collection, Stephen Jay Gould: Reflections on His View of Life, out last year. I'm pointing to it because of this: The...
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I'm preparing a lecture on the evolution of language. This post started out as a short note about the quote below, referring to a new book by V. S. Ramachandran. But I realized it takes some setting up...
View ArticleGould's "Unconscious Manipulation of Data"
OK, so I can't say it's not "brain science" because measuring skulls is as close to brain science as anthropology ever gets. But it just shouldn't be that hard to measure volume. It's a simple physical...
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