Word: speciesism
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There were other concerns. The ending was reshot in order to make her character more sympathetic. The original script by C. Jay Cox received an overhaul from the uncredited but expensive screenwriter Robert Harling (First Wives Club). At $30million, the movie is expected to be a hit with women, though...
Though the course isn’t offered this year, the course instructor, Professor of Biology Brian D. Farrell, will head for Hispaniola to begin cataloging species on the Caribbean island and searching for new ones. And starting next spring he plans to bring Harvard students with him.
Farrell said he hopes to document around 17,000 species in total, including 10,000 species of insects and 6,000 plants—as part of an ecological study he is conducting with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and the Smithsonian Museum.
He said the insects there—some of which are endemic to the island, which means they are native or confined to that area—can trace evolutionary connections between species in North and South America.
Farrell said he hopes the study will lead to field guides of insects, distribution maps for the national park systems and an online encyclopedia of the species of Hispaniola—an area in which Harvard excels, according to Farrell.