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...wanted to write a major book that laid out my thoughts and current views as best as I could do it in a single volume. What I’m trying to do is lay out in a sense what I consider to be the central logic of Darwinian theory, what are the few essential postulates. I show how in the first half, the historical half, how the subject has always been a subject of debate, even in the nineteenth century, and then the second half is devoted to how I think revisions need to be made to all three...
...It’s nothing I ever planned to do, just drifted into it. I had developed a reputation for writing my ordinary scientific papers in this weirdly literary way, and I got away with it. So one day, out of the blue, the editor of Natural History called me up and said, hey, you want to write some columns for us—I didn’t even know they had columns—and I found out they even paid you for them. So I wrote three or four, and then I wrote 300, never missed...
...We’ve made new signs that say “If you’re satisfied, tell us. If you’re not, tell us that too,” she says. “People have actually taken the time to write compliments...
...will never write a prescription, check your pulse or draw blood—although, if you stop by her office, she may offer you a piece of candy...
...Akiyama said in an e-mail yesterday that he had no involvement with Taiwan and that he came to Harvard simply to write about and promote military cooperation between Japan...