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.

    7 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.

    5 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 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.

    3 minutes