Beauty in Evolution
Here’s a nice talk on a subject we discussed in the B3 class a few years ago — Beauty in evolution! Hot Science Website
Bird Sight Records
Are we in the doldrum days for birding in Texas? How do you get your birding fix during June and July? Here’s a couple of fascinating articles I ran across while working various arm-chair birding projects. The Doubtful Birder: Decision Making & Field Identification article David A. Sibley Article on Certainty in Sight Records
“Wheatear”
Anyone been curious about the word “Wheatear”? According to Peter Mathisson in “The Tree Where Man was Born” it’s old english for “whte arse”. (Painting by David A. Sibley)
Naturalists
I’m planning to attend on Thursday. A couple of naturalist heroes!! Humboldt & Darwin Austin Water Center for Environmental Research at Hornsby Bend Center for Environmental Research Lunchtime Lectures Alexander von Humboldt: Culture, Science, and the Geography of Nature By Kevin M. Anderson August – The Evolution of Nature: Humboldt, Darwin, and Biogeography Humboldt was…
Snake Talk 1973
Plumbeous V has history with “diagnoses”!!
Darwin’s Missing Notebooks
He da man !!! 2 missing Charles Darwin notebooks are mysteriously returned more than 20 years later
E.O. Wilson, a Pioneer of Evolutionary Biology, Dies at 92
I was a fan!! The Guardian Article
FLORENCE AUGUSTA MERRIAM BAILEY
Another we spoke of in B3.
A Tribute to a Texas Naturalist
I hope to catch this. UPDATE: here’s the recording of this presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L58G8C7YAFs This Monday, June 28th, at 7-8ish pm, on ZOOM: A Tribute to a Texas Naturalist: Greg Lasley (1949-2021), presented by Dr. Chuck Sexton, retired wildlife biologist, birder, iNaturalist, and lecturer. “A Tribute to a Texas Naturalist: Greg Lasley (1949 – 2021) The…