In which Max finally completes his three-part essay on Stephen Jay Gould and punctuated equilibria, and asks why Gould changed his mind about key features of evolution around 1977

In which Max re-posts the first two parts of his three-part essay on Stephen Jay Gould and punctuated equilibria in an effort to drum up interest in Part 3…

In which Max considers the geological writings of William Whewell and his concept of “palaetiological science”

In which Max explores the history of the Gaia hypothesis and wonders whether it needs to be “Darwinized”

In which Max re-examines a recent re-examination of living fossils, with the help of a new paper by Beckett Sterner