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Natural history is the research and study of organisms including plants or animals in their environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.
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In terms of size, mammals are an anomaly, as the vast majority of the world's existing species are snail-sized or smaller. It's almost as if, regardless of your kingdom, the smaller your size & the earlier your place on the tree of life, the more critical is your niche on Earth: snails & worms create soil, & blue-green algae create oxygen; mammals seem comparatively dispensable, the result of the random path of evolution over a luxurious amount of time.
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― The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
― The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
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I wonder if we are seeing a return to the object in the science-based museum. Since any visitor can go to a film like Jurassic Park and see dinosaurs reawakened more graphically than any museum could emulate, maybe a museum should be the place to have an encounter with the bony truth. Maybe some children have overdosed on simulations on their computers at home and just want to see something solid--a fact of life.
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― Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
― Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
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This reading group will focus on natural history. We will immerse ourselves within the realm of…more
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