Comments on: Well, I’ll be a monkey’s … nephew http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200902/well-ill-be-a-monkeys-nephew/ standards, accessibility, and ranting and general stuff by the web chemist Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:19:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: JackP http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200902/well-ill-be-a-monkeys-nephew/comment-page-1/#comment-47432 JackP Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:18:40 +0000 http://www.thepickards.co.uk/?p=1737#comment-47432 Ah bless, that's lovely, if somewhat suspiciously looking like spam. But maybe I'm just overly cynical. Either way though, it's not <em>entirely</em> relevant to this post, however. Might I suggest that in future any similar endearments -- whether spam or otherwise -- are directed through the <a href="http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/contact-me/" rel="nofollow">contact form</a>? Even the <a href="http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200902/a-whole-lot-of-lovin/" rel="nofollow">a whole lot of lovin'</a> post might have been a bit more relevant... Ah bless, that’s lovely, if somewhat suspiciously looking like spam. But maybe I’m just overly cynical.

Either way though, it’s not entirely relevant to this post, however. Might I suggest that in future any similar endearments — whether spam or otherwise — are directed through the contact form? Even the a whole lot of lovin’ post might have been a bit more relevant…

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200902/well-ill-be-a-monkeys-nephew/comment-page-1/#comment-47428 Anonymous Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:43:18 +0000 http://www.thepickards.co.uk/?p=1737#comment-47428 hi we love you hi we love you

]]> By: Christophe Strobbe http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200902/well-ill-be-a-monkeys-nephew/comment-page-1/#comment-47384 Christophe Strobbe Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:17:10 +0000 http://www.thepickards.co.uk/?p=1737#comment-47384 As you say, Charles Darwin is lauded as the father of evolution, but as a biologist you probably know that his main contribution was not the concept of evolution (which was already very old; see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution#History_of_evolutionary_thought" rel="nofollow">History of evolutionary thought (in Wikipedia's Evolution article)</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_evolutionary_thought" rel="nofollow">History of evolutionary though (the full Wikipedia article)</a>) but the theory of natural selection as a mechanism for evolution (also independently discovered by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace" rel="nofollow">Alfred Russel Wallace</a>. Will there by a Wallace year in 2023? I doubt it.). As you say, Charles Darwin is lauded as the father of evolution, but as a biologist you probably know that his main contribution was not the concept of evolution (which was already very old; see History of evolutionary thought (in Wikipedia’s Evolution article) and History of evolutionary though (the full Wikipedia article)) but the theory of natural selection as a mechanism for evolution (also independently discovered by Alfred Russel Wallace. Will there by a Wallace year in 2023? I doubt it.).

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