Archive for January 2024
Institutions & organisms
“In order for any organism to [control behavior in response to surroundings], one part of it must be receptive, able to smell or hear, and another part of it must be active, able to make something useful happen. The organism must also establish a connection of some sort, an arc, between these two parts.” –…
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And the best book of 2023 is … The Sounds of Life, by Karen Bakker. It’s technically a 2022 book, but late 2022 and so good it’s still the best of 2023. It’s in some sense a book about the evolution of bioacoustics, the science of listening to the rest of the environment. There are…
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