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Honest Ab : Evolution and Related Topics
28.06.2025
I have just published my sixth book, Forgotten Landscapes: How Native Americans Created Pre-Columbian North America and What We Can Learn fr...
21.06.2025
My main purpose in my social media is to help you make better sense of the world and your life in it. I do this primarily by sharing my sc...
08.06.2025
Hemp has meant many things to many people. To some, especially in Oklahoma, it is the beloved cannabis, the source of THC and CBD. In Fran...
31.05.2025
I read a most unusual book, Homo Deus, by Yuval Noah Harari, an Israeli historian who is on the Cambridge faculty. It has been a widely-r...
17.05.2025
As I reported previously, Alsace in France planted a half million trees last year. This is in a rainy part of the world that already has lot...
10.05.2025
I now live in the CeA ( Collectivité européene d’Alsace ), near Strasbourg in eastern France, just over the Rhine River from Germany. Th...
19.04.2025
Perhaps the most famous piece written by the German composer Robert Schumann (two N’s) was a one-page piano piece, Träumerei (Dreaming). ...
30.03.2025
I’d forgotten all about it. Back in 1992 I wrote an article for a minor journal, “Charles Darwin’s Influence on Ecological Theory.” The edit...
15.03.2025
The only truly effective way to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is for all of us to quit producing so much of it: bu...
08.03.2025
It is usually scientists who have the right and responsibility to decide the scientific names of organisms, and in some cases the common nam...
19.02.2025
It is easy, now that I live in France, to feel proud that I am part of a society that has less of a destructive impact on the Earth than I...
01.02.2025
I just posted a YouTube video on this topic. [ https://youtu.be/lItwjRfxP7A ]. Much has been speculated and written about the evolutio...
25.01.2025
The ultimate measure of success for big corporations, and little ones, and individuals, and governments, is profit. An enemy is anyone who...
18.01.2025
This blog focuses mostly on evolution and science. Part of evolution is cultural evolution, and for humans the most important kind of cult...
11.01.2025
I just finished reading, two decades after it was published, the book Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. I read it at the same time that I ...
04.01.2025
Greetings. I have a felicitous essay with which you can begin your new year. I have just finished the manuscript of a seventh book t...
07.12.2024
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...
30.11.2024
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...
09.11.2024
We all know that utopias cannot ever exist. But, according to historian Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind ,...
02.11.2024
I became a scientist one evening in 1978 when I was participating in the plant ecology group studies seminar at the University of California...
27.10.2024
This is from an email I wanted to send to the office of the Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Ryan Walters. However, neit...
11.10.2024
Strasbourg, France, where I now live, is justly proud of Johannes Gutenberg (about 1406-1468), who invented the printing press. He was bo...
05.10.2024
This is a letter I mailed to Tiya Miles, a Harvard professor, minority activist, and novelist, regarding her most recent novel, Cherokee Ros...
21.09.2024
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...
07.09.2024
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...
17.08.2024
I posted a video in which I explain where new evolutionary adaptations, and cultural innovations, come from. I filmed the video in Strasb...
10.08.2024
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...
04.08.2024
After decades of teaching, writing, and reading about ecology and evolution I thought I had heard everything. But just recently I ran acro...
19.07.2024
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...
13.07.2024
I recently posted an essay (July 4), just below about how the Founding Fathers thought they had found a natural basis for government: natura...
04.07.2024
July 4 is when Americans celebrate the Declaration of Independence, even though they know very little about it. In the weeks leading u...
18.05.2024
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...
05.04.2024
I am a vulgarizer. That is, my science books are intended for ordinary intelligent people (the original Latin meaning of vulgar), not for ...
23.03.2024
I have just finished reading my third science fiction novel by the twentieth-century French writer René Barjavel. I have written previously ...
02.03.2024
In 1987, I submitted my Ph.D. thesis, “Environmental Variability and Phenotypic Flexibility in Plants,” at the University of Illinois. What ...
24.02.2024
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...
17.02.2024
This is the phrase that celebrity physicist Richard Feynman used to describe the joy of scientific research. But it also describes the joy...
03.02.2024
Aldous Huxley wrote a short novel in which he saw a pickup truck speeding out of a Hollywood movie studio, overloaded with unsolicited scree...
24.01.2024
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...
15.01.2024
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 ...