Craig recently visited the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains to observe
the American bison. Here he offers some notes on his observations, which
included sightings of moose, pronghorns, coyotes, and various other
critters, in addition to bison.
As a result of a letter they wrote, published in the journal,
Nature, Malte Ebach and Craig were invited by the editors of
Bioscience (journal of the American Institute of Biological
Sciences) to write a commentary on DNA barcoding. Here are some excerpts
from their article.
Excerpts from a little-known book whose author remarked: "This little
book is a humble experiment in thought dedicated to those who, conscious
of a widening cleavage between Nature and Man, are willing to inquire into
its causes. It neither will nor can do any harm to others who feel safe
only in the shelter of inherited habits."
Many physicists talk freely about the "mental" character of the universe.
Why, then, are those scientists in other disciplines - disciplines that
aspire to the status of physics - so backward about overcoming their
long-standing bias against mentality?
The history of the concept of the gene dramatically belies the
contemporary rhetoric that treats the gene as a fixed, well-defined thing
that controls the organism and makes it what it is. Here the evolving
concept of the gene is traced through the words of many of those who
played a central role in elucidating the concept.
