OUCH. Medawar’s Demolition of Teilhard de Chardin’s Fifties e book, The Phenomenon of Man

P B Medawar in 1960 In his evaluate revealed in 1961, now deservedly extra well-known than the e book* itself, Peter Medawar began as he meant to go on. After…

Mission ParaZoo: there’s a critter inside my jellyfish!

ParaZoo (full title ‘Metazoan parasites of non-crustacean zooplankton’) is likely one of the most interaction-focused tasks at the moment operating on the Invertebrate Collections of our Museum. This challenge, funded…

Pied Herons close to Broome – 10,000 Birds

With our continued journey restrictions as a result of floodwater harm achieved to our highways and the destruction of the Fitzroy Crossing bridge we’re nonetheless having fun with our native…

a color plate from 1962

Within the days when color printing was extraordinarily costly, the Avicultural Society had particular appeals for funds to help the looks in Avicultural Journal of the occasional color plate. A…

Higher codes of apply for management of feral animals

Every so often I flip my analysis hand to problems with invasive species management, for instance, from manipulating pathogens to manage rabbits, to island eradication of feral cats and pigs,…

Conserving infants alive will decrease inhabitants development

We’ve simply revealed a paper in PLOS ONE displaying excessive toddler mortality charges are contributing to an incessant rise of the worldwide human inhabitants, which helps arguments for higher entry…

A Close to Conjunction – 10,000 Birds

The sky cracked open as we ascended into the modest hills of Trinidad’s Northern Vary. Turning into one of many side-roads off the famed Arima-Blanchisseuse Street, we continued our journey…

Francis Crick beneath hearth from an embryologist

This letter appeared in Nature in 1970: Diffusion in Embryogenesis SIR,—As an embryologist who began work in the course of the heyday of “fields” and “gradients”, I suppose I must…

Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – half 2 – 10,000 Birds

That is the second a part of a publish exhibiting some birds seen at Nonggang in December 2022, together with the same old (principally irrelevant) feedback. In China, wherever there…

An Unusually Giant Clean Newt. Who wrote this letter in 1977?

UNUSUALLY LARGE SMOOTH NEWT Pricey Sir, On the 18th October, 1977, I acquired a Frequent or Clean newt of outstanding dimension, it measures 101 millimetres from head to tail, and…