Watching the fish at the Laguna de las Ninfas: why the tension between risk-taking and caution runs all the way down our evolutionary heritage—and why humans are, in Bronowski’s phrase, the social solitary. … More Gratitude Practice: The Social Solitary
Messages across continents in an instant, home overnight by air—and what the same journeys cost Darwin, just two lifetimes ago. … More Gratitude Practice: Modern Communication and Transportation Networks
I am grateful for finitude. Infinity is an abstraction that refers to a potentiality, a mathematical process that however high we count we can always add one more, or in reality that no matter what combinations of matter now exist they can always form new arrangements. But whatever actually exists now is finite, with a … More Gratitude Practice: Finitude
How Evolution Evolves “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one most adaptable to change.” – Pseudo-Darwin When Charles Darwin was conducting his researches during the Beagle voyage and upon returning home and settling in the picturesque village of Downe, England south of London, the … More On the Destiny of Species
On the Origin of Species is a highly readable, beautifully written book, and should be read as the textbook case of scientific induction. … More Book Review: On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
