Phylogeny vs Similarity and Function

[sfmatheson]

@beaglelady

It’s good to have you back, Steve! (Some of the new people here might not know that Steve used to write for BioLogos many moons ago.)

Thanks BL!

I’ll be in and out, partly because my work is inhumanely busy right now and partly because I have to limit exposures to Christianity for everyone’s sake.

[Sy_Garte]

@sfmatheson

My friend John Farrell posted video of a lecture by another friend, Ryan Gregory, speaking on exaptation in a symosium about Gould’s legacy in light of the knowledge accrued since his death.

Steve

Thanks for the link to Gregory’s video, its quite good, and I only wish I had seen it before my last talk, so I could have stolen some of the slides. I am a great fan of Gould, and also of Dawkins, and when they disagreed (which was a lot) I had fun choosing sides. My main beef with Gould was his tape rewinding theme, but I dont know enough about his views on convergence to be able to guess what he would say now. On the other hand Gould’s warnings about the adaptationist paradigm were brilliant and full of foresight, as we now know.

[beaglelady]

Steve Matheson has recently rebooted his science blog. Definitely worth checking out:

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