In which Max reflects on the recent MBL-ASU History of Biology Seminar on historical contingency in biology

In which Max considers a recent account of historical natural kinds, and force-feeds it the example of the “great evolutionary faunas”

In which Max examines two attempts to use Mars to better understand the past and future of Earth, respectively

In which Max asks what an argument for repatriating a fossil might look like in the absence of demonstrable illegality in the acquisition of that fossil

In which Max debuts the doomed format of the “partial book review.” The subject: Chapter 10 of Ronald Jenner’s book, Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology

In which Max argues that an obscure Scottish geologist causes trouble for the position Derek Turner calls “historical cognitivism” in aesthetics