Also at AMNH was the very shiny and interactive Secret World Inside You, and the utterly gorgeous little Opulent Oceans exhibit of sea life themed artwork. From mytwitterpage, you might guess that I’m already in love withErnst Haeckel’swork, so I was very excited to find so many other...
Ernst Haeckel (left) and Eugenius Warming (right), two early founders of ecology By ecology we mean the body of knowledge concerning the economy of nature-the investigation of the total relations of the animal both to its inorganic and its organic environment; including, above all, its friendl...
Mammoths and I go way back, not quite to the Ice Age but at least to the late 1970s with my family’s visits to the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum, and Milwaukee Public Museum, to name two prominent places that inspired me. And one of my favourite science books had a colourful...
A nice surprise to see naturalist superstar Jonathan Kingdon‘s scientific illustrations and nature-inspired artwork displayed here. I’ve added photos of ones I liked the most. As the caption explains, Kingdon used art to explain the value of nature; via realistic images of life, dissections,...
and that are inextricably connected to social norms and culture. As Boeckx (2010, 5) pointsout, the biolinguistic point of view inspired by Chomsky during the last 50 years has made us drasticallychange our perceptions (although not without resistance), suggesting that if we really want to mak...
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Australopithecusis proposed as a hominid being that lived two to three million years ago, walked upright and used coarse tools. The brain volume is about 500 cc, the same as in some monkeys with high structure. Its teeth are claimed to be similar to those ofRamapithecus.