After so much reading on the subjects of rats and rats in the lab I now understand how little I knew about this species. Right off the bat I was surprised that laboratory rats were called heroes and how often rats and humans were compared. I was also surprised at extreme emotional spectrum that rats […]
This was my second time reading Of Mice and Men and just as it had been the first time, I found the book to be emotional moving, more so than many others that I have read. The parallels between the beginning part of the book and the end of the book create such a dramatic […]
The relationship between civilization or progress and evolution is a topic that we have discussed before but it is intriguing enough to address again. Early on in the reading, Brantz defines these concepts and the relationship between these concepts in a way that I understood more than before. Evolution and progress on their own are […]
I just realized that I blogged about “Creatures of Empire” instead of “The Domestication of Empire”, I completely misread the syllabus and will update my post as soon as I can.
Was this guy not meant to be intertwined in the complexities of domestication? To go from the pursuit of gold to the pursuit of grass impresses me much more than it does Anderson. I understand that Percy may have had a keen eye for meadows but I would expect that a perilous journey to the […]
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