cc_dgdc@bath63.UUCP (05/05/87)
Knowing nothing about punctuated equilibria I sent off by post for 'Evolution and the New Phylogeny' by Dr Derek Bryce (Llanerch,1986). It is an 80 page book aimed at biology undergraduates. The first paragraph: 'This book has been written to provide students and teachers with a brief review of Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, post-neo-Darwinism, with special emphasis on phylogenetic patterns from phylectic transition and gradualism to the modern view of punctuated equilibria.' It convinced me that there may well be something in punctuated equilibria. The subject is now open for me. The book is decently written although occasionally repetitious. The use of technichal language can be a problem at times. Available by mail-order from Llanerch Enterprises, Llanerch, Felinfach, LAMPETER, Dyfed, Wales, UK SA48 8PJ at 2.95 pounds plus 55 pence UK postage (Americans will have to haggle) Bryce is a bit of a polymath, which is halfway to being a crank. I saw the ad in his book 'The Mystical Way and the Arthurian Quest' (4.50 pounds plus postage) which is actually quite a good little book on esoteric religion combined with some of his translations of can-be-boring Celtic myth. But it is not rubbish. Neither is his evolution book. Plenty of common sense. -- Douglas Clark Voice: +44 225 826826*5214 Computer Unit, Bath University, JANET: Clark@UK.AC.AUCC Claverton Down, Bath, Avon, UUCP : seismo!mcvax!ukc!bath63!cc_dgdc England BA2 7AY ARPA : cc_dgdc%ux63.bath.ac.uk@ucl-cs.arpa