tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post381770354224991221..comments2024-03-27T14:50:47.345-04:00Comments on <center>Sandwalk</center>: The Austrian Evolution Summit: The Invitation and OutlineLarry Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05756598746605455848noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-42759624310973077712008-03-11T07:42:00.000-04:002008-03-11T07:42:00.000-04:00Hey there, Mats! Hadn't seen you around for a whi...Hey there, Mats! Hadn't seen you around for a while.<BR/><BR/>RE "Darwin is dead, long live Darwin:" As PZ Myers explains in one of his recent posts, science must build on and extend what has come before, because there are reproducible observations of the way things are that won't go away. Thus Einstein extended Newton's mechanics, and the "modern synthesis" extended Darwin's work. The conference about which Dr. Moran has posted looks as if it is trying to move toward extending this synthesis.<BR/><BR/>As Dr. Myers also explains, the settled facts on which modern work regarding evolution rests pretty well ensure that you, Mats, will not be happier with any new synthesis that you are with "Darwinism."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-1380903970085852762008-03-10T11:58:00.000-04:002008-03-10T11:58:00.000-04:00Sugested title for this conference:"Darwin is dead...Sugested title for this conference:<BR/><BR/><B><I>"Darwin is dead. Long live Darwin!"</I></B><BR/><BR/>*Mats*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-91587443848272754642008-03-10T11:24:00.000-04:002008-03-10T11:24:00.000-04:00It is a shame that this, and other conferences tha...It is a shame that this, and other conferences that hold interest to many budding scientists who cannot get the money to attend (or are too busy for all that travelling nonsense), will not be streamed or recorded and put up for download.<BR/><BR/>I would be interested to hear about this evo-devo view on evolvability.The Monkeymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17976422973674509612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-89740677417052870662008-03-10T10:58:00.000-04:002008-03-10T10:58:00.000-04:00It's too bad they're missing some other topics tha...<I>It's too bad they're missing some other topics that should be there (group selection, species sorting, speciation).</I><BR/><BR/>I'd be surprised if Dr. Jablonski didn't at least touch on these three. Particularly species sorting, which he has included in several of his papers, for example:<BR/><BR/>Jablonski D, Hunt G. 2006. Larval Ecology, Geographic Range, and Species Survivorship in Cretaceous Mollusks: Organismic versus Species-Level Explanations. The American Naturalist 168(4): 556-564.<BR/><BR/>Also, to echo Eric, above, Dr. Gavrilets has written extensively about speciation, for example:<BR/><BR/>Gavrilets S. 2000. Waiting time to parapatric speciation. Proceedings: Biological Sciences 267(1461): 2483-2492.<BR/><BR/>It certainly does look like a very interesting gathering. I'm sorry I'll be missing it.TheBrummellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08973380652057861796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-22488147802360258622008-03-10T02:17:00.000-04:002008-03-10T02:17:00.000-04:00It's kind of odd that you'd pick group selection a...It's kind of odd that you'd pick group selection and speciation as items being excluded, since David Sloan Wilson is one of the major contributors to the group selection literature, and Sergey Gavrilets has made quite a few significant contributions to the literature on speciation, including a whole book on the topic. <BR/><BR/>I think it looks like it should be an interesting meeting... relatively low on fluff, and several really interesting participants.Eric Pedersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17671534515420912220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-35496273792105919342008-03-09T20:26:00.000-04:002008-03-09T20:26:00.000-04:00It's too bad they're missing some other topics tha...<I>It's too bad they're missing some other topics that should be there (group selection...).</I><BR/><BR/>You don't believe the David Sloan Wilson talk will discuss that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com