Darwin-L Message Logs, October 1993

Academic Discussion on the History and Theory of the Historical Sciences

During its several years of operation, the Darwin-L discussion group supported a consistently high level of scholarly conversation across the entire range of the palaetiological sciences, including evolutionary biology, historical linguistics, geology, systematics, paleontology, archeology, textual transmission, genealogy, cosmology, and related fields that reconstruct the past from evidence in the present. All messages posted to Darwin-L were logged automatically by the listserv software. The list owner lightly edited these logs, removing extraneous headers and deleting occasional error messages, and the resulting files are archived here.

October 1993 Darwin-L Message Logs

• Log 2:1 — List owner’s monthly greeting
• Log 2:2 — Greenfield on Language
• Log 2:3 — A parallel between linguistic and biological evolution?
• Log 2:4 — Re: Cultural change and historical (“Darwinian”) explanations
• Log 2:5 — Re: A parallel between linguistic and biological evolution?
• Log 2:6 — Re: Heritability and cultural evolution
• Log 2:7 — Biological and linguistic change
• Log 2:8 — Re: A parallel between linguistic and biological evolution?
• Log 2:9 — Re: Heritability and cultural evolution
• Log 2:10 — linguistic change and teleology
• Log 2:11 — Ease of articulation
• Log 2:12 — Tasmanian
• Log 2:13 — Re: Tasmanian
• Log 2:14 — Tasmanian
• Log 2:15 — Re: Tasmanian
• Log 2:16 — Re: Ease of articulation
• Log 2:17 — Cross-cultural biology
• Log 2:18 — ‘Reply-to’ change reversed
• Log 2:19 — Fossil Cnidaria ’95
• Log 2:20 — Coral Reef Meeting ’94
• Log 2:21 — Production of variation vs. selection in evolution and linguistics
• Log 2:22 — Darwin’s influence on fiction
• Log 2:23 — Re: Darwin’s influence on fiction
• Log 2:24 — question from another list (human biol. list HUMBIO-L)
• Log 2:25 — Re: Ease of articulation
• Log 2:26 — October 6 – Today in the Historical Sciences
• Log 2:27 — Research
• Log 2:28 — Re: Ease of articulation
• Log 2:29 — Re: Linnaeus and literature
• Log 2:30 — RE: Research
• Log 2:31 — Re: Ease of articulation
• Log 2:32 — Why altruism?
• Log 2:33 — Re: Why altruism?
• Log 2:34 — altruism
• Log 2:35 — Ploidy and polymorphism in evolution and philology
• Log 2:36 — The term “locus”
• Log 2:37 — Re: altruism?
• Log 2:38 — Quote from Nietzsche
• Log 2:39 — Re: Why altruism?
• Log 2:40 — manuscript polymorphism
• Log 2:41 — October 10 – Today in the Historical Sciences
• Log 2:42 — WATER BABIES
• Log 2:43 — Re: WATER BABIES
• Log 2:44 — Re: WATER BABIES
• Log 2:45 — Re- Textual transmission
• Log 2:46 — Re: WATER BABIES
• Log 2:47 — Re: What is “talk.origins”?
• Log 2:48 — Re: What is “talk.origins”?
• Log 2:49 — re: WATER BABIES
• Log 2:50 — re: WATER BABIES
• Log 2:51 — re: WATER BABIES
• Log 2:52 — Re: What is “talk.origins”?
• Log 2:53 — Re: WATER BABIES
• Log 2:54 — Re: WATER BABIES
• Log 2:55 — re: WATER BABIES
• Log 2:56 — Re: The term “locus”
• Log 2:57 — Re: The term “locus”
• Log 2:58 — Re: WATER BABIES
• Log 2:59 — Re: WATER BABIES
• Log 2:60 — Some serious USENET and Paleontology Listserver?
• Log 2:61 — Re: The term “locus”
• Log 2:62 — Re: manuscript polymorphism
• Log 2:63 — Re: The term “locus”
• Log 2:64 — Re: manuscript polymorphism
• Log 2:65 — Re: WATER BABIES
• Log 2:66 — Survey courses on language diversity
• Log 2:67 — manuscript polymorphism
• Log 2:68 — The term “locus”
• Log 2:69 — WATER BABIES
• Log 2:70 — Re: WATER BABIES
• Log 2:71 — Re: manuscript polymorphism
• Log 2:72 — Manuscript polymorphism
• Log 2:73 — Re: WATER BABIES
• Log 2:74 — Re: Manuscript polymorphism Good analog?
• Log 2:75 — Re: manuscript polymorphism
• Log 2:76 — WATER BABIES
• Log 2:77 — manuscript polymorphism
• Log 2:78 — Re: WATER BABIES
• Log 2:79 — Some clarifications re: textual transmission
• Log 2:80 — Re: manuscript polymorphism
• Log 2:81 — Manuscript unploidy
• Log 2:82 — manuscript transmission
• Log 2:83 — A reference in altruism
• Log 2:84 — Bibliographies and September message log now available
• Log 2:85 — RFD: sci.evolution.human
• Log 2:86 — Re: RFD: sci.evolution.human
• Log 2:87 — Re: RFD: sci.evolution.human
• Log 2:88 — Re: waterbabes
• Log 2:89 — Re: manuscript polymorphism
• Log 2:90 — October 16 – Today in the Historical Sciences
• Log 2:91 — Re: waterbabes
• Log 2:92 — Re: waterbabes
• Log 2:93 — Re: manuscript polymorphism
• Log 2:94 — Clarification re: RFD: sci.evolution.human
• Log 2:95 — RE: waterbabes & hominoid cladistics
• Log 2:96 — textual polymorphism
• Log 2:97 — a reference in altruism
• Log 2:98 — manuscripts and genetics—why care?
• Log 2:99 — manuscripts, populations, horizontal transmission
• Log 2:100 — October 19 – Today in the Historical Sciences
• Log 2:101 — Re: a reference in altruism
• Log 2:102 — water babies
• Log 2:103 — Nowak and May reference/Tom Walters
• Log 2:104 — Re: water babies
• Log 2:105 — Re: Nowak and May reference
• Log 2:106 — Re: mss polymorphism/dog breeds
• Log 2:107 — water babies
• Log 2:108 — a reference in altruism
• Log 2:109 — New book on statistics in archeology and history
• Log 2:110 — Software for comparative linguistics
• Log 2:111 — Re: mss polymorphism/dog breeds
• Log 2:112 — Re: mss polymorphism/dog breeds
• Log 2:113 — Re: mss polymorphism/dog breeds
• Log 2:114 — Kropotkin, Nowak e May
• Log 2:115 — Generalizations in Biology
• Log 2:116 — A direct application of systematic methods to stemmatics
• Log 2:117 — October 24 – Today in the Historical Sciences
• Log 2:118 — A quick question...
• Log 2:119 — Re: A quick question...
• Log 2:120 — Re: A quick question...
• Log 2:121 — Re: A quick question...
• Log 2:122 — DARWIN CHILE
• Log 2:123 — human evolution
• Log 2:124 — Re: human evolution
• Log 2:125 — Re: human evolution
• Log 2:126 — Re: human evolution
• Log 2:127 — Re: human evolution
• Log 2:128 — caveman
• Log 2:129 — Re: caveman
• Log 2:130 — Cavemen in Rudwick’s Scenes From Deep Time (1992)
• Log 2:131 — Re: caveman
• Log 2:132 — Re: caveman
• Log 2:133 — Re: caveman
• Log 2:134 — Re: caveman
• Log 2:135 — Re: caveman
• Log 2:136 — Re: caveman
• Log 2:137 — Re: caveman
• Log 2:138 — Re: Re: caveman
• Log 2:139 — Re: caveman
• Log 2:140 — caveman
• Log 2:141 — Re: caveman
• Log 2:142 — Re: caveman
• Log 2:143 — Re: human evolution
• Log 2:144 — Siegfried Sassoon on the historical sciences
• Log 2:145 — Re: caveman
• Log 2:146 — Re: Re: caveman
• Log 2:147 — Re: Re: caveman
• Log 2:148 — difference between scientific and popular explanation
• Log 2:149 — Re: human evolution
• Log 2:150 — Re: difference between scientific and popular explanation
• Log 2:151 — questions and comments re cavemen discussion
• Log 2:152 — Re: scientific and popular explanation
• Log 2:153 — Neandertals, wild-men, troglodytes and satyrs
• Log 2:154 — Re: caveman
• Log 2:155 — Re: DARWIN-L digest 54
• Log 2:156 — Some notes on historical explanation
• Log 2:157 — Re: caveman
• Log 2:158 — Re: Cavemen in Rudwick’s Scenes From Deep Time (1992)
• Log 2:159 — Re: DARWIN-L digest 55
• Log 2:160 — ‘Palaetiology’
• Log 2:161 — difference between scientific and popular explanation
• Log 2:162 — Re: DARWIN-L digest 54
• Log 2:163 — scientific and popular explanations/ human evolution
• Log 2:164 — RE: caveman
• Log 2:165 — Re: DARWIN-L digest 56
• Log 2:166 — Pronouncing ‘palaetiology’
• Log 2:167 — Re: Pronouncing ‘palaetiology’
• Log 2:168 — Re: Pronouncing ‘palaetiology’