I mentioned last week that this market has no memory from day to day. The market ended last week on a subdued note, and it was hard to see what the catalyst might be to spur a rally this week. But overnight the dollar fell, Asian markets rallied, and buyers stepped in.
Few write on the history of evolutionary theory as compellingly as John Wilkins. (Had his Species: the History of an Idea and Defining Species: a Sourcebook from Antiquity to Today been available in 2002, I could’ve avoided years of thankless legwork and finished my dissertation with normative time to spare. Not that I’m bitter.) So I can think of no better way to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin than to listen to Wilkins speculate about what would have happened had it never existed. My only qualm is with this paragraph:
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