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Author : David Barnaby
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ISBN 13 : 9780953158812
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (588 download)
Download or read book Quagga Quotations written by David Barnaby and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Heywood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108923569
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Life, Extinction, and Rebreeding of Quagga Zebras written by Peter Heywood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quaggas were beautiful pony-sized zebras in southern Africa that had fewer stripes on their bodies and legs, and a browner body coloration than other zebras. Indigenous people hunted quaggas, portrayed them in rock art, and told stories about them. Settlers used quaggas to pull wagons and to protect livestock against predators. Taken to Europe, they were admired, exhibited, harnessed to carriages, illustrated by famous artists and written about by scientists. Excessive hunting led to quaggas' extinction in the 1880s but DNA from museum specimens showed rebreeding was feasible and now zebras resembling quaggas live in their former habitats. This rebreeding is compared with other de-extinction and rewilding ventures and its appropriateness discussed against the backdrop of conservation challenges—including those facing other zebras. In an Anthropocene of species extinction, climate change and habitat loss which organisms and habitats should be saved, and should attempts be made to restore extinct species?
Author : William King Gregory
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Collected papers written by William King Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York Zoological Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by New York Zoological Society and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 31, no. 1, Jan./Feb. 1928, commemorates "A quarter-century of the New York Aquarium."
Author : New York Zoological Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Zoological Society Bulletin written by New York Zoological Society and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Endersby
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674027138
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (271 download)
Download or read book A Guinea Pig's History of Biology written by Jim Endersby and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved," Darwin famously concluded The Origin of Species, and for confirmation we look to...the guinea pig? How this curious creature and others as humble (and as fast-breeding) have helped unlock the mystery of inheritance is the unlikely story Jim Endersby tells in this book. Biology today promises everything from better foods or cures for common diseases to the alarming prospect of redesigning life itself. Looking at the organisms that have made all this possible gives us a new way of understanding how we got here--and perhaps of thinking about where we're going. Instead of a history of which great scientists had which great ideas, this story of passionflowers and hawkweeds, of zebra fish and viruses, offers a bird's (or rodent's) eye view of the work that makes science possible. Mixing the celebrities of genetics, like the fruit fly, with forgotten players such as the evening primrose, the book follows the unfolding history of biological inheritance from Aristotle's search for the "universal, absolute truth of fishiness" to the apparently absurd speculations of eighteenth-century natural philosophers to the spectacular findings of our day--which may prove to be the absurdities of tomorrow. The result is a quirky, enlightening, and thoroughly engaging perspective on the history of heredity and genetics, tracing the slow, uncertain path--complete with entertaining diversions and dead ends--that led us from the ancient world's understanding of inheritance to modern genetics.
Author : Francis Martin Duncan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Cassell's Natural History written by Francis Martin Duncan and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bulletin - New York Zoological Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Animal Kingdom written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scott Weidensaul
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780865476684
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Ghost with Trembling Wings written by Scott Weidensaul and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-06-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott Weidensaul chronicles scientists' search for extinct species, discussing how some plants and animals have reappeared after being lost for hundreds of years.
Author : Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. Annual Convention
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1038 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations written by Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. Annual Convention and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume for 29th, 1915 includes the 4th: Land Grant College Engineering Association. Proceedings of the ... annual convention of the Land Grant College Engineering Association ... ; in 1915 the Land Grant College Engineering Association united with the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations.
Author : Susan Nance
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815653395
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)
Download or read book The Historical Animal written by Susan Nance and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described as the history of human ideas about animals. Only in the last few decades have scholars from a wide variety of disciplines attempted to document the lives of historical animals in ways that recognize their agency as sentient beings with complex intelligence. This collection advances the field further, inviting us to examine our recorded history through an animal-centric lens to discover how animals have altered the course of our collective past. The seventeen scholars gathered here present case studies from the Pacific Ocean, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, involving species ranging from gorillas and horses to salamanders and orcas. Together they seek out new methodologies, questions, and stories that challenge accepted historical assumptions and structures. Drawing upon environmental, social, and political history, the contributors employ research from such wide-ranging fields as philosophy and veterinary medicine, embracing a radical interdisciplinarity that is crucial to understanding our nonhuman past. Grounded in the knowledge that there has never been a purely human time in world history, this collection asks and answers an incredibly urgent question for historians and others interested in the nonhuman past: in an age of mass extinctions, mass animal captivity, and climate change, when we know much of what animals have done in the past, which of our activities will we want to change in the future?
Author : Karen Polinger Foster
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ISBN 13 : 0190672536
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Strange and Wonderful written by Karen Polinger Foster and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the creation of the world's first botanical and zoological gardens five thousand years ago, people have collected, displayed, and depicted plants and animals from lands beyond their everyday experience. Some did so to demonstrate power over distant territories, others to enhance prestige by possessing something no one had seen before. Exotica also satisfied intellectual curiosity, furthered scientific research, and educated and entertained. In addition, exotica, especially their state-sponsored representation, were often instruments of political persuasion, and in turn exerted considerable influence over expansionist policies. More than an account of gardens and menageries from antiquity to the present, Strange and Wonderful explores the imagery of exotic flora and fauna in Western art, seeking answers to certain fundamental and universal questions. How do artists, schooled in traditional modes of rendering the familiar, deal with the new and strange? Why are rare species deliberately introduced into images otherwise devoid of the unusual? What is the pictorialized relationship between exotic reality and artistic imagination? Karen Polinger Foster takes readers on a journey across millennia and around the globe, telling fascinating stories and meeting along the way such characters as Hatshepsut's baboons, Charlemagne's elephant, D�rer's rhinoceros, and Victoria's hippopotamus. What emerges is a sense of just how strong and far-reaching the pull of the unknown and exotic has been across time and space. Ultimately, images of the wonderful reveal as much about the indigenous as they do about the strange, enabling us to glimpse more vividly the power of imagination to mold the unknown to its purposes. This dazzling and richly illustrated volume offers a thoughtful, much-needed inquiry into a very human phenomenon.
Author : American Gynecological Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Transactions of the American Gynecological Society written by American Gynecological Society and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book South African Journal of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Office of Experiment Stations
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 828 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin written by United States. Office of Experiment Stations and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy Anne Harrowitz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803223745
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (237 download)
Download or read book Antisemitism, Misogyny, & the Logic of Cultural Difference written by Nancy Anne Harrowitz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are there connections between misogyny and antisemitism? If so, what would these connections be and to what degree are these prejudices reinforced or even generated by nineteenth-century science? This book explores these compelling questions by discussing two Italian authors of the late nineteenth century, a period when both antisemitism and misogyny were crucial concerns to society, as they still are today. One author, Cesare Lombroso, was a famous criminologist whose ideas about juvenile court, indeterminate sentencing, and parole still influence the American justice system. He was Jewish himself, yet wrote a book about antisemitism which blamed the Jews for their condition and proposed assimilation as an answer to the problem of prejudice. He also wrote highly derogatory work on women. The other author, Matilde Serao, a well-known journalist and novelist, built a brilliant career for herself but in her newspaper editorials advised other women to stay home. In her novels she often demonstrated ambivalence and hostility towards women's condition, and she used antisemitic stereotypes in some of her work. Antisemitism, Misogyny, and the Logic of Cultural Difference demonstrates how similar is the 'logic' of these two authors' prejudice towards women and Jews, as they both depend on the science of their day, such as Darwinism, to justify their views. It raises as well the issues of why their prejudice focuses on women and Jews, since one author is Jewish and the other a woman, how prejudice towards different groups can intersect, and the role of the difficult and complex concept of self-hatred.
