Quite so. But we already have a term for anyone who seeks knowledge in any
area - "philosopher." All scientists are philosophers, but not all
philosophers focus on the empirical sciences. - George
> ----------
> From: Greg Panfile
> Reply To: artwithbraininmind-l@pks.bu.edu
> Sent: Monday, July 9, 2001 6:52 PM
> To: artwithbraininmind-l@pks.bu.edu
> Subject: Re: [evol-psych] Hot Summer Science Books (fwd)
>
> Ah, that explains it, I knew there was something amiss;-). Then again
> perhaps if we define a scientist as one who believes in the pursuit of
> knowledge, rather than one who engages in a certain profession as defined
> by
> the local tribes, we'd be in a different mode altogether... but your point
> would still be taken;-).
>
> gp
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George Bailey" <gwsb@whatart.com>
> To: <artwithbraininmind-l@pks.bu.edu>
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 10:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [evol-psych] Hot Summer Science Books (fwd)
>
>
> Greg, begging your pardon, but I am not a scientist. - George
>
> >I think we have a serious statistical anomaly here worth investigating...
> >two scientists with a sense of humor, simultaneously. Will wonders never
> >cease...
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "George Bailey" <gwsb@whatart.com>
> >To: <artwithbraininmind-l@pks.bu.edu>
> >Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 8:46 PM
> >Subject: Re: [evol-psych] Hot Summer Science Books (fwd)
> >
> >
> >heheheheh
> >
> >>Important books for your summer reading.
> >>
> >>Ian Jobling
> >>
> >>---------- Forwarded Message ----------
> >>Date: Friday, July 06, 2001, 4:50 PM +0100
> >>From: Ian Pitchford <ian.pitchford@scientist.com>
> >>To: evolutionary-psychology@yahoogroups.com
> >>Subject: [evol-psych] Hot Summer Science Books
> >>
> >>> http://news.bmn.com/hmsbeagle/106/xcursion/humor
> >>>
> >>> Hot Summer Science Books
> >>>
> >>> Reviewed by Ben Henley
> >>> Posted June 22, 2001 · Issue 105
> >>>
> >>> Editor's Note: A brief guide to the books that everyone will be
> talking
> >>> about, flicking through in bookshops, and exchanging for credit this
> >>> summer.
> >>>
> >>> The Foundations of Pokemon Genetics, 5th edition
> >>> by Carl Goldwater
> >>>
> >>> In this era of genomics, microarrays, and insanely overvalued biotech
> >>> startups, the beginnings of classical genetics might not seem too
> >>> exciting to the modern student. However, Goldwater spins a fascinating
> >>> tale of the early days of the study of the workhorse of genetics: the
> >>> Pokemon. As the "Grand Old Man" of the field, he enlivens his accounts
> >>> of the crucial experiments with anecdotes about the personal quirks of
> >>> the investigators and the often remarkable role of chance in making
> >>> their discoveries. Ask a modern undergraduate why Pokemon were chosen
> as
> >>> an experimental model and she'd likely reply that it was their small
> >>> genome size or their remarkable genetic diversity; Goldwater confides
> >>> that it happened because his mentor J.B. Clarkson found one under a
> rock
> >>> while out strolling one day and thought it looked "rather jolly."
> >>> Another sidebar deals with the rivalry between Pokemon labs and those
> >>> who preferred to investigate simpler organisms, like Tamagotchi.
> >>>
> >>> Of course, alongside the anecdotes, there is the high standard of
> >>> writing we have come to expect from this text. The explanation of how
> >>> Clarkson elucidated the mechanism that causes Charmander to evolve
> into
> >>> Charmeleon is particularly outstanding. A delight for experts and
> >>> newcomers alike.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Sexing Darwin's Chicken
> >>> by Simon Kay Gelid
> >>>
> >>> For over 80 years, readers of The Naturalist magazine have been
> thrilled
> >>> by Gelid's erudite essays about natural history. This book is the
> latest
> >>> collection in the successful series which includes Larmarck's
> Hatstand,
> >>> Hooray for Lampreys, Joe DiMaggio's Tonsils, and Evolution Yadda
> Yadda.
> >>> As ever, he ranges widely through the byways of the natural world and
> >>> human history.
> >>>
> >>> Standout essays include the story of the now-forgotten seventeenth
> >>> century philosopher Carlo "The Chin" Spinucci, whose experiments with
> >>> carp anticipated both Mendel and Kinsey, although to differing
> extents.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Guns, Steel . . . and Yams!
> >>> by Susan Chitterling
> >>>
> >>> Chitterling is best known as a respected yam botanist, but in this
> book
> >>> she takes us on a brisk and often surprising tour of the last ten
> >>> thousand years of human history. She argues that the Pyramids
> functioned
> >>> chiefly as immense yam granaries; that the defeat of the Aztec and
> Mayan
> >>> civilizations by the Conquistadors came down to an unlucky series of
> >>> failures in the yam harvest; and that one of the key factors in the
> >>> Industrial Revolution was the absence of significant levels of yam
> >>> farming in nineteenth century Britain. Bound to be controversial.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> It's Evolution, Stupid!
> >>> by Robert Dworkin
> >>>
> >>> The master of popular accounts of evolution returns with another
> >>> accessible and highly informative tome. This is the follow-up to his
> >>> best-selling books The Selfish Bastard, The Deaf Hatmaker, and
> Mounting
> >>> Miss Impossible. This time around his trademark clarity of prose is
> >>> marred by a rather confrontational tone and a sense that he is losing
> >>> patience with his critics. Chapter titles include "God Is Dead and I
> >>> Killed Him" and "I'm Not Even Going to Waste My Time Discussing That
> >>> Charlatan Simon Kay Gelid." After reiterating his stance as a strict
> >>> neo-Darwinist in the chapter entitled "Why Have a Son When You Could
> >>> Have Eight Nephews?" Dworkin outlines the thesis that the tendency to
> >>> disagree with him is an inherited trait that decreases inclusive
> >>> fitness. As ever, his gift for the apt comparison will make you see
> the
> >>> natural world in a new light. I particularly enjoyed his metaphor of
> DNA
> >>> repair enzymes as a computer spell check, with mutagens as the
> Microsoft
> >>> Office Assistant. Recommended.
> >>>
> >>> Ben Henley is a genetics graduate and Ph.D. dropout. He is currently
> >>> special projects editor at BioMed Central.
> >>>
> >>> Cary Barnhard grew up in New Jersey, where his senior class voted him
> >>> "most unique." He maintains that honor is a polite way of being voted
> >>> "most likely to need therapy." After a few misadventures in the music
> >>> industry, he started pretending to be a graphic artist. Eventually it
> >>> became the truth.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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