Ricardo · @RGBes
323 followers · 3507 posts · Server mastodon.socialThese Creatures Were Darwin's Greatest Enemy | PBS Eons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plYuvU2VZkE
#barnacle #darwin #cirripedes #Linnaeus #Cuvier #mollusc #crustacean #arthropod #genome #dna #natural_history #paleontology #biology #science #evolution #variation
#barnacle #darwin #cirripedes #Linnaeus #Cuvier #mollusc #crustacean #arthropod #genome #dna #natural_history #paleontology #biology #science #evolution #variation
KatMorrow · @Tode
11 followers · 24 posts · Server indieweb.social
The Hamburg Hydra, from the Thesaurus (1734) of Albertus Seba.
"Linnaeus quickly discovered the specimen was a fake, cobbled together from the jaws and paws of weasels and the skins of snakes."
#taxidermy #snakes #weasels #hydra #hamburg #Linnaeus
bs2 · @bsmall2
195 followers · 3346 posts · Server mstdn.jp> Shah identifies the emergence of biological taxonomy, the naming of things, as the historical moment when we decided that nature, which had never stopped moving and evolving, was actually fixed. Carl #Linnaeus, “the sex-crazed Swedish taxonomist”, becomes the founding father of a political principle of nativism that can be summed up simply: “We belong here. They belong there.”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/07/the-next-great-migration-by-sonia-shah-review-why-people-wander
#SoniaShah #Immigration #Migration
#migration #immigration #SoniaShah #Linnaeus