Hi Laura, Truth. We think we're the only socially organized animals, so far from the truth. So many cooperative, communal, and colonial birds and mammals that learn from each other culturally, too. Not Charles Darwin, but LSU business professor Leon C. Megginson summarized Darwin in 1963, the year I was born, in the journal Petroleum Management, that "it is not the strongest of the species, nor the most intelligent, but the one most adaptive to change". (It was even attributed to Darwin embarrassingly inscribed in a sore walkway at the campus of Cal Tech, I believe. ) Yet, Albert Schweitzer said: "Man has lost the capacity to foresee and forestall. He will end by destroying the earth".
I butt typed the above before adding one last quote: "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."- John Muir. We are simply a part of the earth's web. The economy is a subset of the ecology of the world, to quote ecological Robert E. Ricklefs.
I first heard about Darwin when my older sister told me that her biology teacher said that human were descended from monkeys. While we finished doing the dishes we talked about whether we would set the hair on our tails in rollers and what it would be like to swing from tree branches. Many years later I used Darwins essays to show students how to us details to prove a point, but still some of them refused to read them on religious grounds. reading your writings about birds has further advanced my sense of wonder about the amazing variety and attention to detail every plant and creature has developed to live in their specific environments.
Great piece. And so true. Thanks
Hi Laura, Truth. We think we're the only socially organized animals, so far from the truth. So many cooperative, communal, and colonial birds and mammals that learn from each other culturally, too. Not Charles Darwin, but LSU business professor Leon C. Megginson summarized Darwin in 1963, the year I was born, in the journal Petroleum Management, that "it is not the strongest of the species, nor the most intelligent, but the one most adaptive to change". (It was even attributed to Darwin embarrassingly inscribed in a sore walkway at the campus of Cal Tech, I believe. ) Yet, Albert Schweitzer said: "Man has lost the capacity to foresee and forestall. He will end by destroying the earth".
I butt typed the above before adding one last quote: "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."- John Muir. We are simply a part of the earth's web. The economy is a subset of the ecology of the world, to quote ecological Robert E. Ricklefs.
I first heard about Darwin when my older sister told me that her biology teacher said that human were descended from monkeys. While we finished doing the dishes we talked about whether we would set the hair on our tails in rollers and what it would be like to swing from tree branches. Many years later I used Darwins essays to show students how to us details to prove a point, but still some of them refused to read them on religious grounds. reading your writings about birds has further advanced my sense of wonder about the amazing variety and attention to detail every plant and creature has developed to live in their specific environments.