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		<title>Just how natural is selection?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John S. Wilkins]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Evolution is not natural selection. So wrote R. A. Fisher, mathematician, biological theorist and unfortunate eugenicist. This is the preface to a book that kick-started, although not on its own, the synthesis of Mendelian genetics and evolutionary theory in 1930: The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection. Fisher was, by all...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>On grief</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John S. Wilkins]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2025 08:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have lived with death in my world since I was six, and my friend Judith suddenly disappeared from school. I was told later she died from leukaemia, as in those days there was no treatment available for younger children. And as it was around 1961, no adult ever mentioned...]]></description>
		
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		<title>A series of posts on Categories in systematics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 03:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[They are on Substack of course, and I forgot to link to them here, so:]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ethics in 5 minutes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 04:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["...ethics is a tradition. People sometimes get annoyed at the fact that they have to read Plato, Aristotle or some other old and very Western source. But this is the price one pays for entering a tradition, as any student of religion, literature, architecture, or art can tell you. But, and this is important, that is the academic or formal side of ethics. One can understand issues (not all of them) without knowing the canon."]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Historicism</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John S. Wilkins]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2024 03:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have made my latest Substack post available to all. In which I defend myself from heinous charges and calumnies, and defend a kind of historicism.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>So, how did we get here?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John S. Wilkins]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 01:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is not my beautiful world Shit got real just now, but it took a long time and a lot of inattention and complacency, basically since the 1950s. It began with the unholy alliance of manufacturing and the military during the Cold War and the technowashing of German military engineers...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Imaginaries in Science</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John S. Wilkins]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2024 08:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I wrote a thing. I started out skeptical, but ended up convincing myself that &#8220;imaginaries&#8221; is a good concept. I am annoyed by this.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>New book on Land Ethics</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John S. Wilkins]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2024 23:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A friend and colleague, Roberta L. Millstein, who is emerit at UC Davis, has published a new book: The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium, which is available from The University of Chicago Press here. She defends Aldo Leopold&#8217;s Land Ethic. The publisher&#8217;s blurb:...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Vale Michael Ghiselin</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John S. Wilkins]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 11:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Michael Ghiselin, who was the originator of (the modern) view that species are individuals, died on 14 June 2024. He was a very generous person with his time for antipodean philosophers. With his passing, the authors of the SAI thesis, as it is called, are both gone: he and his...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A quote from Lewis Carroll</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John S. Wilkins]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s actually from Charles Dodgson&#8217;s The Game of Logic 1887: The world contains many Things (such as &#8220;Buns&#8221;, &#8220;Babies&#8221;, &#8220;Beetles&#8221;, &#8220;Battledores&#8221;, &#38;c.) ; and the Things possess many Attributes (such as &#8220;baked&#8221;, &#8220;beautiful&#8221;, &#8220;black&#8221;, &#8220;broken&#8221;, &#38;c: in fact, whatever can be &#8220;attributed to&#8221;, that is &#8220;said to belong to&#8221;,...]]></description>
		
		
		
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