Tag: Ernst Mayr
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Nation & World
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.
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Nation & World
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.
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Nation & World
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.
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Nation & World
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.