I had no idea

[james_davis_nicoll]

As pointed out in email, JEP on evolution.

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[erikagillian.livejournal.com]

I always assumed Pournelle was a physicist or something, ie hates biology because it's squishy and unpredictable. But he's that most hated of things, a social scientist! Two degrees in psychology and the doctorate in, of all things, Political Science! How come he got into the hard science fiction club?

Clarification: Not all physicists hate everything squishy. Just the annoying ones.

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

Amusingly, population genetics is one of the most mathematical parts of biology. It's not often biologists get to use complex analysis to prove important theorems.