Word: phyla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AGGRESSION, by Konrad Lorenz. In this fascinating natural history of violence, a celebrated Austrian naturalist traces the all-too-human passion of aggression to its roots in the lower phyla and finds there an inherent (and hopefully inherited) capacity to transform aggression into love...
...patient entomologist settled down for a decomposition watch. Within five minutes, the first flesh-eating flies arrived to begin feeding on the unscreened piglets. During the next few weeks, 522 species of tiny morticians -most of them insects-arrived to join the feast. Among them, Payne identified "3 phyla, 9 classes, 31 orders, 151 families and 359 genera." By the eighth day, the only piglet parts that had not been consumed were bones, cartilage and dry skin...
...sculpture of William Muir looks something like polished driftwood; but nature, with all her wisdom, cannot seem to match by accident what Muir shapes by design. With rasps, rifflers and chisels, he has liberated a splendiferous Eden filled with elegant new phyla of plant life. Now on view at Manhattan's Sculpture Center, Muir's subtly swiveling works exchange contours with the space that surrounds them, earning comparisons with the smooth biomorphic bulges that mark the sculpture of Arp, Moore and Brancusi...