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The index files have been shifted around, and history and evolution.com now has a blogbook, Descent of Man Revisited.

Just follow the links, the changes will emerge as you navigate the site.

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Looking Back at Five Years of Bush’s Wreckage in Iraq
By Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com. Posted August 26, 2008.

Bush’s supporters see the global war on terrorism as a “clash of civilizations” — yet the civilization we are destroying in Iraq is part of our own.

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An archive file from History and Evolution.com
The Darwin debate is one of the most persistent of contemporary culture. And Darwin’s theory of evolution is one of the most heavily [...]

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The history-and-evolution.com site has been massively streamlined, i.e. many files have been deleted. Although a source of massive hits over the years, the second edition files were falling out of date with too many broken links to leave online any longer. Many files will resurface revamped at eonic-effect.net or here at Eonix Papers.

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One of the central themes of World History And The Eonic Effect is the study of the emergence of democracy in the eonic sequence, with the resulting suspense over the fate of this democratic stream. The article cited has the proper tone of suspense: How America’s empire will fall

In the year 432 B.C., Athenian statesman [...]

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The new blog, Kant’s Challenge, is starting up with a post: Rediscovering transcendental idealism

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Gavin Menzies: mad as a snake – or a visionary?
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 01/08/2008
His first book claimed that the Chinese discovered America. Now, in a controversial sequel, Gavin Menzies says they also sparked the Renaissance
The author of 1421 is at it again. As to whether the Chinese discovered America, one could remain open, save [...]

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Post at Darwiniana on the question of punctuated equilibrium as treated in the third edition, a selection from the text.

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From the Archives to History And Evolution.com: to be upgraded.
A frequently asked question is, What is the eonic effect? The term simply refers to a basic set of three turning points or transitions visible in world history, the birth of civilization, the classical period, with its remarkable so-called ‘Axial Age’.
We speak of [...]

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Time for this blog, so far specialized around ‘Site News’ to branch out into history, evolution and the eonic effect. Here, to begin, is an interesting book on the father of history, Herodotus.
Students of the eonic effect will note that Herodotus, and the emergence of ‘history’, is correlated with the eonic effect itself, Herodotus appearing [...]

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Toward A Postdarwinian Liberalism

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WHEE has now been discounted to $16.75 at Amazon, cheap!
World History And The Eonic Effect, Third Edition

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There is a file of Stanley Salthe on natural selection and complexity in the /docs directory:
http://eonix-papers.com/docs/NatselinComplexityALife.pdf

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