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Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

07.12.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Wild Child

I just finished reading a collection of short stories by T. C. Boyle (T. Coraghessan Boyle). The title of the collection is the same as th...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

30.11.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Why We Get Fat

I just posted a video about why we get fat. It results from cravings for high-calorie foods. These cravings were given to us by natural sel...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

09.11.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Vanishing Utopias

We all know that utopias cannot ever exist. But, according to historian Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind ,...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

02.11.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: How I Became a Scientist

I became a scientist one evening in 1978 when I was participating in the plant ecology group studies seminar at the University of California...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

27.10.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: The Stars in their Courses

This is from an email I wanted to send to the office of the Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Ryan Walters. However, neit...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

11.10.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Gutenberg and Printing: A View from Strasbourg

Strasbourg, France, where I now live, is justly proud of Johannes Gutenberg (about 1406-1468), who invented the printing press. He was bo...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

05.10.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Evolutionary Altruism and Human Genealogies

This is a letter I mailed to Tiya Miles, a Harvard professor, minority activist, and novelist, regarding her most recent novel, Cherokee Ros...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

21.09.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: A Humorous Interlude

Come on, admit it, you are ready for a little humor. I promise it won’t take long. And it is relevant to what I have recently written. I...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

07.09.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Happiness is Fill in the Blank

I’ve been looking through a dull but well-intentioned book from 1937, 101 of the World’s Greatest Books. That is, five to ten page summar...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

17.08.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Where New Adaptations Come From

I posted a video in which I explain where new evolutionary adaptations, and cultural innovations, come from. I filmed the video in Strasb...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

10.08.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: The Evolution of Genius

There are geniuses among us. Some of you might be geniuses. But since it is impossible to define what a genius is, few of us can ever know w...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

04.08.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Mutualism all around us

After decades of teaching, writing, and reading about ecology and evolution I thought I had heard everything. But just recently I ran acro...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

19.07.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: The Importance of Urban Trees

I have always (even when I was a child) been inspired by trees out in the forest, especially the giant sequoia trees in the Sierra Nevad...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

13.07.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: White Superiority? Not.

I recently posted an essay (July 4), just below about how the Founding Fathers thought they had found a natural basis for government: natura...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

04.07.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Some Thoughts on July 4

July 4 is when Americans celebrate the Declaration of Independence, even though they know very little about it. In the weeks leading u...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

18.05.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: What Is Faith?

As a scientist, let me start off by saying what faith is not . It is not simply believing something that somebody else has told you. Fai...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

05.04.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Vulgarization

I am a vulgarizer. That is, my science books are intended for ordinary intelligent people (the original Latin meaning of vulgar), not for ...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

23.03.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Fiction that Makes You Think

I have just finished reading my third science fiction novel by the twentieth-century French writer René Barjavel. I have written previously ...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

02.03.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: What Was I Thinking? Remembrances of My Dissertation

In 1987, I submitted my Ph.D. thesis, “Environmental Variability and Phenotypic Flexibility in Plants,” at the University of Illinois. What ...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

24.02.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: A Risk of Science

I just finished reading a French novel, Cent millions d’années et un jour, by Jean-Baptiste Andrea. It was not the best novel I have eve...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

17.02.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

This is the phrase that celebrity physicist Richard Feynman used to describe the joy of scientific research. But it also describes the joy...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

03.02.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: The End of Creativity

Aldous Huxley wrote a short novel in which he saw a pickup truck speeding out of a Hollywood movie studio, overloaded with unsolicited scree...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

24.01.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Lucky to Be in Tulsa: The Twelfth Message from Fluff the Cottonwood Tree

I am happy that Stan has stayed in touch with me after he moved to France. He was glad to leave Tulsa, but I, speaking as a member of th...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

15.01.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Direct Experience with the Gulf Stream: A Word from France

I just found out that my iNaturalist app still works even in Europe. I just identified a plant that was growing in someone’s garden here in ...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

06.01.2024

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Welcome, Stranger, part two. French, part two

I recently moved to France from America, as I have written in earlier essays. Many Americans are annoyed at the subtlety of the French langu...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

30.12.2023

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Welcome, Stranger, part one. French, part one.

This is my last essay this year, but I will continue the series in 2024. As I said in my previous essay, I have just moved to Strasbourg...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

21.12.2023

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: My New Science Education Career

As Fluff told you in the previous essay, I have moved to Strasbourg, France. I was really relieved to get here, and could not have done it...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

07.12.2023

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Similarities and Differences: The Tenth Message from Fluff the Cottonwood

Fluff the cottonwood here again. My ninth message was the most recent post. I just heard from Stan. He wanted me to tell all of you that h...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

22.10.2023

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Poverty and Blame: The Ninth Message from Fluff the Cottonwood

Hello, this is Fluff the Cottonwood Tree near Stan’s house in Tulsa. He has given me permission to post these observations on his blog. My p...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

13.10.2023

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Bigfoot in Tulsa!

A silhouette of Bigfoot against an Oklahoma map is popular iconography on pickup trucks in Oklahoma. Do the drivers of these trucks believe ...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

13.10.2023

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: The Climate Has Changed Before, So Don't Worry?

Nearly everyone now knows that climate change is real, and that humans are either causing it or making it worse. So I don’t discuss it with ...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

16.09.2023

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Thomas Gilcrease, Master of Altruism

As described in Connie Cronley’s masterful and readable biography of the Oklahoma progressive crusader Kate Barnard , young Native men and...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

08.09.2023

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Thanks for the Disturbances, Humans: Eighth Message from Fluff the Cottonwood

It has been almost two years since message number 7 from Fluff, the female cottonwood tree that lives very near our house along the ditch in...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

01.09.2023

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Corporate War on Altruism

Altruism, which I have defined many times in many ways on this blog, is doing well by doing good. It is not selfless sacrifice. The altrui...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

25.08.2023

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Race and History, As If You Needed Another Example: Jackson Barnett, part two

Jackson Barnett was an easy-going, illiterate, uneducated Creek Indian who lived near Henryetta, Oklahoma. The federal government forced him...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

19.08.2023

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Race and History, as if You Needed Another Example: Jackson Barnett, part one

If there is one thing that conservatives are proud of in America, it is that rich people can do whatever they want with their money, so lo...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

29.07.2023

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: The Brutal Truth

In science, literal truth is enshrined as the ultimate good. We like to imagine that we tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

21.07.2023

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: La Bête Humaine

This is the title of an 1890 French novel by Émile Zola. I read an English translation that retained the original French title. (The e-circu...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

14.07.2023

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Just Go Dump Your Mining Wastes on the Native Americans: A Recycling Story

The Quapaw Native American town of Picher, Oklahoma once had the biggest lead mine in the world. Half of all the zinc and lead used by t...

Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics

07.07.2023

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: The Second Biggest City in the World that You Never Heard About: Spiro

It is the biggest city that you never heard about. It may well have been the second biggest city in the world somewhere between 1000 and 1...

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Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics - Science

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Wild Child

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Why We Get Fat

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Vanishing Utopias

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: How I Became a Scientist

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: The Stars in their Courses

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Gutenberg and Printing: A View from Strasbourg

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Evolutionary Altruism and Human Genealogies

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: A Humorous Interlude

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Happiness is Fill in the Blank

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Where New Adaptations Come From

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: The Evolution of Genius

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Mutualism all around us

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: The Importance of Urban Trees

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: White Superiority? Not.

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Some Thoughts on July 4

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: What Is Faith?

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Vulgarization

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Fiction that Makes You Think

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: What Was I Thinking? Remembrances of My Dissertation

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: A Risk of Science

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: The End of Creativity

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Lucky to Be in Tulsa: The Twelfth Message from Fluff the Cottonwood Tree

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Direct Experience with the Gulf Stream: A Word from France

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Welcome, Stranger, part two. French, part two

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Welcome, Stranger, part one. French, part one.

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: My New Science Education Career

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Similarities and Differences: The Tenth Message from Fluff the Cottonwood

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Poverty and Blame: The Ninth Message from Fluff the Cottonwood

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Bigfoot in Tulsa!

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: The Climate Has Changed Before, So Don't Worry?

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Thomas Gilcrease, Master of Altruism

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Thanks for the Disturbances, Humans: Eighth Message from Fluff the Cottonwood

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Corporate War on Altruism

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Race and History, As If You Needed Another Example: Jackson Barnett, part two

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Race and History, as if You Needed Another Example: Jackson Barnett, part one

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: The Brutal Truth

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: La Bête Humaine

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: Just Go Dump Your Mining Wastes on the Native Americans: A Recycling Story

Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics: The Second Biggest City in the World that You Never Heard About: Spiro

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