Tag: Ernst Mayr

  • Campus & Community

    Books of their youth

    The Gazette asked a group of Harvard professors to talk about a book from their student days that has since gained in resonance or meaning.

    6–9 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    A playful turn for libraries

    A new initiative is underway to use gaming and crowdsourcing to speed the massive task of transcribing documents, at Harvard and around the world.

    4–6 minutes
  • Health

    Glimpses of paradise

    Photographer and Harvard affiliate Tim Laman worked with Edwin Scholes of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology to document all 39 species of birds of paradise.

    4–5 minutes
  • Health

    Re-examining Darwin’s thoughts on species

    Radcliffe Fellow James Mallet says Darwin’s idea of speciation as a step in a continuum of differences reflects reality in nature.

    2–3 minutes