Word: speciesism
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Rich though they are in curiosities, the collections have real scientific clout. They include more than 10,000 types, the specimens used to name and describe new species, as well as examples of creatures now rare (Gilbert's potoroo) or extinct (the skeleton of a Tasmanian tiger). Museum pays tribute...
We’ve been told all our lives that American culture likes things big, and nowhere is this axiom more evident than in our eating habits. Just as Americans worship largeness in all its forms, buying ever-bigger cars to venture out into ever-wider landscapes, their restaurant portions...
Keller believes she has evidence that they were, thanks to microscopic fossils of foraminifera, a type of plankton that largely died with the dinosaurs. Precisely dating the dinosaurs' demise is tough because most bones disintegrate before they can be fossilized. Plankton, by contrast, are preserved in ocean sediments. Keller studied...
The gardens, spread over 89 acres (36 ha), were established in 1913 on the old farm of southern Africa's chief British colonizer Cecil Rhodes, and are the most beautiful in Africa, mixing indigenous Cape species, such as fynbos, ...
Conservationists will also have to strike that kind of bargain with the world's governments if they hope to preserve threatened species. But the face-off between environment and development has been a perennial battle - and perhaps, for primate conservationists, an unwinnable one - given that the countries that are home...