Joachim L. Dagg
@jdagg.bsky.social
PhD in biology (evolutionary ecology) at Univ. of Göttingen in 2003; secondary school teacher for biology & chemistry; spare-time historian of science; metropolitan area Frankfurt am Main.
Don't attribute it to yourself. It's them.
October 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Don't attribute it to yourself. It's them.
So, "Ein Tag im Spetember" is a documentary about De Gaulle and Adenauer: www.zdf.de/play/dokus/a...
Enthüllt: Ein privates Treffen, das die Geschichte Europas veränderte. | Terra X History Doku
Das legendäre Treffen Adenauers und de Gaulles im September 1958 hat eine komplizierte Vorgeschichte. Aus "Erbfeindschaft" wird Freundschaft.
www.zdf.de
September 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
So, "Ein Tag im Spetember" is a documentary about De Gaulle and Adenauer: www.zdf.de/play/dokus/a...
You have the gift of telling a captivating narrative, bolstered by facts, and that's an advantage in history of science.
August 31, 2025 at 9:54 PM
You have the gift of telling a captivating narrative, bolstered by facts, and that's an advantage in history of science.
Now, try rails and puffs.
August 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Now, try rails and puffs.
AFAIK, the biggest idiot in the "history of biology" was Dr. Pangloss.
August 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
AFAIK, the biggest idiot in the "history of biology" was Dr. Pangloss.
Do you agree that W.D. Hamilton used "selfish gene" differently from Dawkins? For Hamilton, a selfish gene was a chunk of DNA that coded for selfish behaviour of the organism (vehicle or interactor). For Dawkins it was "selfishness", even against the vehicle, if that promoted replication.
August 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Do you agree that W.D. Hamilton used "selfish gene" differently from Dawkins? For Hamilton, a selfish gene was a chunk of DNA that coded for selfish behaviour of the organism (vehicle or interactor). For Dawkins it was "selfishness", even against the vehicle, if that promoted replication.
Whatever it is, the therapy is to deflate it.
July 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Whatever it is, the therapy is to deflate it.
4. Write an autobiography telling that you are all selfmade?
June 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
4. Write an autobiography telling that you are all selfmade?
Congrats! I gather that the principle of divergence is a minor topic (from not being in the conclusion). Would your writing have suffered from citing some of the publications on that principle (e.g., Kohn, Tammone). Is your interpretation so new that discussing theirs would have led into arcania?
June 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Congrats! I gather that the principle of divergence is a minor topic (from not being in the conclusion). Would your writing have suffered from citing some of the publications on that principle (e.g., Kohn, Tammone). Is your interpretation so new that discussing theirs would have led into arcania?
Probably smooth. Just quickly checked my adaptationists (e.g. Maynard Smith) for claimed vilification, but only found a citation of Huxley in Williams. Wish Gould’s sentence would’ve been shorter but with references.
May 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Probably smooth. Just quickly checked my adaptationists (e.g. Maynard Smith) for claimed vilification, but only found a citation of Huxley in Williams. Wish Gould’s sentence would’ve been shorter but with references.
Huxley (1953) defined progress as "improvement wich permints further improvement" and said it is "difficult to prophesy the detailed course it will have", but, "once we can look back on the facts we reallize that it could have happened in no other way."
May 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Huxley (1953) defined progress as "improvement wich permints further improvement" and said it is "difficult to prophesy the detailed course it will have", but, "once we can look back on the facts we reallize that it could have happened in no other way."
The gist of this long sentence: Deep homologies, like Hox genes, forced historical and structural constraints into evolutionary theory.
The panglossian to beat here is Julian Huxley (1953, Evolution in Action), I guess. Can't be GC Williams and Dawkins had written his chap. 3 in Extended Phenotype.
The panglossian to beat here is Julian Huxley (1953, Evolution in Action), I guess. Can't be GC Williams and Dawkins had written his chap. 3 in Extended Phenotype.
May 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The gist of this long sentence: Deep homologies, like Hox genes, forced historical and structural constraints into evolutionary theory.
The panglossian to beat here is Julian Huxley (1953, Evolution in Action), I guess. Can't be GC Williams and Dawkins had written his chap. 3 in Extended Phenotype.
The panglossian to beat here is Julian Huxley (1953, Evolution in Action), I guess. Can't be GC Williams and Dawkins had written his chap. 3 in Extended Phenotype.
It has such a definite form for an amoeba, how come?
May 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It has such a definite form for an amoeba, how come?
Sorry, but I have to reject your decision tree. I thinkt that science education should enable the learners to judge any scientific publication on its own merits. That requires an understanding and judgement of its actual content. Your decision tree doesn't require engagement with the actual content.
January 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Sorry, but I have to reject your decision tree. I thinkt that science education should enable the learners to judge any scientific publication on its own merits. That requires an understanding and judgement of its actual content. Your decision tree doesn't require engagement with the actual content.
Das Schmierblättchen landete heute in meinem Briefkasten (Schwalbach am Taunus) uns somit wohl auch in der weiteren Nachbarschaft. Ist echt schlimm...
January 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Das Schmierblättchen landete heute in meinem Briefkasten (Schwalbach am Taunus) uns somit wohl auch in der weiteren Nachbarschaft. Ist echt schlimm...
This skeet does not belong into the "HP Bio" feed. The emojis 🌱🐋 just so happen to occur next to each other in it. By chance, Greg Priest made them the signature emoji combination for the HP Bio feed.
January 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
This skeet does not belong into the "HP Bio" feed. The emojis 🌱🐋 just so happen to occur next to each other in it. By chance, Greg Priest made them the signature emoji combination for the HP Bio feed.
If you miss the dash, the answer reads: "No evidence for evolution is overwhelming."
That will make evolutionists click as well as anti-evolutionists. I call that well-crafted.
That will make evolutionists click as well as anti-evolutionists. I call that well-crafted.
November 28, 2024 at 7:18 PM
If you miss the dash, the answer reads: "No evidence for evolution is overwhelming."
That will make evolutionists click as well as anti-evolutionists. I call that well-crafted.
That will make evolutionists click as well as anti-evolutionists. I call that well-crafted.
The question so primes the brain to overlook the dash. And that so triggers the finger to... Well crafted click-bait.
November 20, 2024 at 8:11 AM
The question so primes the brain to overlook the dash. And that so triggers the finger to... Well crafted click-bait.