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Number
8 (Fall, 2002)
Do Organisms
Merely Survive? pp. 3-4, by Steve Talbott
To say that organisms strive to survive—or, that an organism's
traits can be explained through a process of random variation
and survival of the fittest—is to make a hollow statement.
It is a very different matter to explain the distinctive
character of the organism that survives.
Notes
and Reviews
African Impressions
pp. 5-8 by Craig Holdrege
The author records some of the experiences on his first
trip to Africa. The cast of characters includes elephants,
hippopotamuses, giraffes, and lions.
The Tyranny of
a Concept pp. 8-10
by Craig Holdrege
A new book, whose writing was stimulated by an article Craig
wrote, details the misguided history of evolutionary theorizing
surrounding the peppered moth.
Feature Articles
Portraying a
Meadow pp. 16-18 by Craig Holdrege
The plants of a bottomland woods and those of a meadow give
us strikingly different pictures of those two environments.
Love and
Detachment: How We Can Reconnect with Nature pp.
19-22 by Steve Talbott
To overcome our alienation from the world, it is not enough
to immerse ourselves in nature. We must learn to walk into
the scientific laboratory, take up the language of cause,
mechanism, and all the rest, and learn to shape-shift this
language into a speech revealing a fuller reality.
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