Gary Dean
The Genesis of Dharmas
> Why does every society grow a dharma, and why did so many of the greatest ones appear, in different worlds, at almost the same moment? It starts with a problem that arrives the day your village gets too big to know. Picture two human worlds, separa…
Splitters, lumpers, and the problem of species
Taxonomy is the attempt to make a process sit still long enough to be spoken of.[^1] When Linnaeus set out to name the living world, he assumed that the world was already divided. Species were the created kinds; the naturalist's task was to discover …
