Review - Princeton Field Guides : Carnivores of the World 01/15/2019 I have believed for some time that there is a beauty in a Princeton field guide that transcends the level of detail and expertise that many other guides provide their users, and the Princeton Field Guides: Carnivores of the World is no exception. In fact, its publication may even set Princeton’s own personal benchmark that much higher. Each of the 250 species profiled in the book is richly illustrated, described and then explored through the subsections of ‘distribution and habitat’,
I have believed for some time that there is a beauty in a Princeton field guide that transcends the level of detail and expertise that many other guides provide their users, and the Princeton Field Guides: Carnivores of the World is no exception. In fact, its publication may even set Princeton’s own personal benchmark that much higher. Each of the 250 species profiled in the book is richly illustrated, described and then explored through the subsections of ‘distribution and habitat’,
The Year of the Fox 01/09/2019 Photo - D. Gordon E. Robertson Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported “Happy New Year.” The Chinese couple spin their stools to face me as I get even to the counter where they are sitting, so trusting, their backs always to the door. We are at the point now, just a week on from the first day of 2019, that these three words have begun to lose quite a bit of their poignancy, but not here, not with this couple. They live in a world bound by their challenges, but likewise
Photo - D. Gordon E. Robertson Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported “Happy New Year.” The Chinese couple spin their stools to face me as I get even to the counter where they are sitting, so trusting, their backs always to the door. We are at the point now, just a week on from the first day of 2019, that these three words have begun to lose quite a bit of their poignancy, but not here, not with this couple. They live in a world bound by their challenges, but likewise
Regarding Darwin's theory of Sexual Selection 11/28/2018 Writing in the book from Oxford University Press Sexual Selection, authors Marlene Zuk and Leigh W. Simmons note that the theories Charles Darwin delineated in Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex were challenging to his audience of both scientific and general readers. The authors write: “While competition among males for the right to mate with a female seemed reasonable enough to Darwin's Victorian contemporaries, virtually none of them could swallow the idea that females – of any
Writing in the book from Oxford University Press Sexual Selection, authors Marlene Zuk and Leigh W. Simmons note that the theories Charles Darwin delineated in Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex were challenging to his audience of both scientific and general readers. The authors write: “While competition among males for the right to mate with a female seemed reasonable enough to Darwin's Victorian contemporaries, virtually none of them could swallow the idea that females – of any