What's the story behind headlines that the dire wolf is back? It went extinct over 10,000 years ago. Charmaine Cozier @bbcworldservice explains de-extinction and the technology with experts @bonesandbugs Dr. Daniel Pincheira-Donoso @vet_Torill@jodenbaugh https://t.co/COFoW2PRyI
But the species category is essential for environmental laws like the Endangered Species Act. So, what should we do? In this essay, I offer a deflationary way of characterizing species that avoids eliminativism and keeps the ESA intact for conservation. 2/
I'm happy about my "Threading the Needle: Species Eliminativism Meets Biological Conservation" coming out in BJPS. In essence, Marc Ereshefsky provided some very powerful arguments for eliminating the species category from biology. https://t.co/srqz1Om08e 1/