Author: Margot Nelson
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An Addendum to “Our African Big Five”
Not too long ago, we posted a blog post detailing the animals that make up the “African Big Five”: the African elephant, the cape…
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Taxonomy: Why It Matters
Taxonomy, put very simply, is the combination of practice and science of categorization of things— for biologists, taxonomy is specifically the classification of organisms…
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Our African Big Five
Ernest Hemingway, in stories like the Green Hills of Africa and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, worked to romanticize big game hunting…
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The Geologic Time Scale
A common trope in science fiction and fantasy is that of a long-lived being, like the Elves Galadriel and Elrond in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The…