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...thriving there until the dry season, when their pools shrink and they squirm along to the next pocket of water. Such clumsy locomotion does not lend itself to wanderlust, and snakeheads in a good pond are likely to stay there forever. "Snakeheads are extremely lazy and sedentary," says Hawaii biologist Ron Weidenbach...
...libraries from retiring Harvard professors, or those who die,” he said, citing as noteworthy recent acquisitions the collections of evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino university professor emeritus, and Thomas Professor of the History of Science emeritus I. Bernard Cohen—whose collection included a number of Isaac Newton’s manuscripts...
...wild violets, mushrooms, lupine, ancient lichens and mosses--an outrageous diversity that is so rare elsewhere in the West. Like some lost explorer, I make little maps on scraps of paper about what I find, and I wonder what the future will bring. In Backtracking, Long quotes a wildlife biologist on the future of the bear in Montana: "Eighty years ago, there were grizzlies leaving their tracks on the beaches, right outside Los Angeles. Eighty years ago. I bet you have a living grandparent who was alive eighty years ago. Los Angeles is a different place...
...biologist and philosopher Lewis Thomas was asked what record of human achievements he would launch into space to be discovered one day by some transgalactic civilization. A continual broadcast of Bach would do, Thomas suggested, though "that would be boasting...
Renowned evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, who was Agassiz professor of zoology and professor of geology, dies of cancer at his home in New York...