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Written by John S. Wilkins on 2025-01-19 at 00:55

John Hawks https://newsmast.social/@johnhawks On human genetic diversity.

https://johnhawks.net/weblog/the-contribution-of-segmental-duplications-to-human-diversity/

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Written by John S. Wilkins on 2025-01-01 at 23:37

I have transcribed the "Strickland Code" from 1842. Any corrections welcomed.

https://evolvingthoughts.notion.site/The-Strickland-Code-1842-16eb20022e9e80bf9a5bd0bb02f7defb

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Written by John S. Wilkins on 2024-12-29 at 08:42

Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and speciation complexity in palaeoanthropology

https://doi.org/10.1093/evolinnean/kzae033

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Written by John S. Wilkins on 2024-12-28 at 10:39

Last night’s dream: I was asked to give an impromptu lecture on Mapping and the university hadn’t booked a room so the class was held outside a Chinese restaurant and I had to write on their window instead of a whiteboard, which erased their signage, and I had to repay them myself. Now that I come to think of it, it was a pretty good lecture, all things considered.

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Written by John S. Wilkins on 2024-12-15 at 02:10

Does anyone have botanical French and would be willing to read through a few chapters in French and the only available English translation to see if the translator has changed much?

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Written by John S. Wilkins on 2024-12-07 at 10:31

Happy rant Saturday.

Please stop AI. Stop mentioning it, stop using it, stop powering it with the dead souls of children and bunnies! It is just machine learning on better setups than they had in the 90s. Itt is a solution looking for a problem, and that is a recipe for an ongoing disaster.

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Written by John S. Wilkins on 2024-11-15 at 03:50

Historicism

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnwilkins/p/historicism?r=6gaq8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Written by John S. Wilkins on 2024-11-07 at 06:24

The decline and fall of democratic decency

https://evolvingthoughts.net/so-how-did-we-get-here/

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Written by John S. Wilkins on 2024-11-06 at 05:55

A few farewells:

Farewell to Ukraine. You fought valiantly.

Farewell to NATO. Russia got what it wanted

Farewell to US Democracy. I hope you survive the next twenty years.

Farewell to US Rule of Law

Time to raise the barricades, rest of us.

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Written by John S. Wilkins on 2024-11-05 at 10:19

I have just received a contract to publish an edited four volumes of sources for Species and Natural Classification in the long Nineteenth Century....

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Written by John S. Wilkins on 2024-11-04 at 10:00

Best wishes to my American friends. I hope your journey into authoritarian nationalism is not successful. #uspol2024

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Written by John S. Wilkins on 2024-10-28 at 10:19

Does anyone have a copy of Wittgenstein's Culture and Value? If so could they please send me a photo of Page 18 in German and English?

Got it, thx

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Written by John S. Wilkins on 2024-10-22 at 07:16

Correction: is coming back up.Some features aren't yet there.

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Written by John S. Wilkins on 2024-10-21 at 21:26

[#]archiveorg is back. Well done to the volunteers who worked to restore it.

Send them money to support the site from. the PayPal link on their main page. (Nice e-library ya got dere. Be a shame if sumtin were ta happen to it.)

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Written by John S. Wilkins on 2024-10-19 at 12:32

After the inevitable crash of “AI”, what will happen to all the academics who were employed to study it in economics, philosophy, and apropos the recent Nobel, physics etc?

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Written by John S. Wilkins on 2024-10-16 at 21:05

The Internet Archive, home to many books and sources now out of copyright and generally unavailable, is in dispute with major publishers who do not like them lending out digital copies of books that are in copyright the way a library does. Coincidentally, it is under a massive DDOS. Just sayin'.

They need support to repair the damage. I am not able to, but maybe you are? They are a not-for-profit organisation.

https://archive.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=38bd6154386f64fcd92204a25&id=6c11dc4bbe&e=cb336fc7ef

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Written by John S. Wilkins on 2024-10-11 at 22:57

Quentin Ruyant is a postdoc doing some wonderful reviews and discussions of hard philosophy of science. This one is on van Fraassen's semantic view of theories. He has previously covered the Sneed-Stegmüller and subsequent structuralisms, and of course Suppe's semanticism before Van F.

https://pragmatictheories.blogspot.com/2024/10/review-of-van-fraassens-semantic.html

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Written by John S. Wilkins on 2024-09-28 at 08:10

I seem to have a new book contract on the way...

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Written by John S. Wilkins on 2024-09-22 at 10:22

Something on things

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnwilkins/p/what-ontology-is-not?r=6gaq8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Written by John S. Wilkins on 2024-09-13 at 07:49

Imaginaries:

https://johnwilkins.substack.com/p/imaginary-friends-and-concepts-in

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