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Natural History Magazine
1y ago
March 2022
A nation is defined by what it preserves.
Lucky Igohosa Ugbudian
Nigerian NH Museum
The British colonial government of Nigeria (1914-1960) made a systematic study of the Nigerian environment and the diverse cultures of the country’s human population. The results of the study culminated in the identification and collection of national heritage and historical objects, as well as a catalogue and specimens of Nigeria’s fauna and flora. These objects and reports were managed and controlled by the British colonial officials with total exclusion of Nigerians. Upon independence in 1960, th ..read more
Natural History Magazine
1y ago
July-August 2022
The way they live, the food they eat, and the effect on us
Douglas Frantz
Catherine Collins
fish farm
Excerpted from Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins. Copyright © 2022 by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins. Published by Henry Holt and Company, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.
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Natural History Magazine
1y ago
March 2022
A true but unlikely tale
Story and Photographs by William Rowan
cover
No one knows how a Canada goose egg ended up in the late spring of 2019 in a sandhill crane’s nest in a marsh connected to Wildwing Lake at Kensington Metropark in Milford, Michigan—a 4,486-acre haven for wildlife and waterfowl. Perhaps a pair of Canada geese (Branta canadensis) had begun to lay a clutch in this ideal nest site and had been driven off by a pair of sandhill cranes (Antigone canadensis) who claimed the nest for themselves. However it happened, when the egg hatched, the imprinting between gosling a ..read more
Natural History Magazine
2y ago
December 2021-January 2022
Despite warnings by biologists and geneticists, eminent individuals and venerable institutions helped promote a false theory that led to sterilizations and genocide.
Rob DeSalle
AMNH group shot
One hundred years ago, the Second International Congress of Eugenics was held from September 22-28, 1921, at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City. The assembly opened to enthusiastic fanfare and positive media attention. Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) was the honorary president. On the first evening, paleontologist and museum president, Henry Fai ..read more
Natural History Magazine
2y ago
September 2021
Cynthia Barnett
W.W. Norton & Company, 2021; 432 pages; $27.95
Laurence A. Marschall
Beyond the gloomy intimation of this book’s subtitle lies a lustrous meditation on humanity’s long fascination with marine mollusks, and, by extension, the relation between the human condition and the sea. That association runs deep, for the limestone underlying much of terra firma is made from the remains of shelled creatures. To this layer of white stratigraphy humans have added their mark—monumental middens of discarded shells, the dinner scraps of flourishing populations in Florida, Cali ..read more
Natural History Magazine
2y ago
We know the beginning, but what happens to the universe at the end of the story?
Katie Mack
art work of virtual universe
Excerpted from THE END OF EVERYTHING (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack, published by Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Printed by permission.
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Natural History Magazine
2y ago
July-August 2021
Strategies for depolarizing political discourse
Chris Bail
political cartoon
Excerpted from Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing by Chris Bail. Copyright © 2021 Chris Bail. Published by Princeton University Press. All rights reserved. Reprinted with Permission.
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Natural History Magazine
3y ago
June 2021
The first crossings and early settlement of the Pacific
Nicholas Thomas
Lian Bua Cave
Excerpted from Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas, copyright © 2021 by Nicholas Thomas. Originally published in 2021 by Head of Zeus in the UK. First US Edition: June 2021, published by Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.
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Natural History Magazine
3y ago
April 2021
A case study: eighteenth-century Dominica
Mark W. Hauser
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Natural History Magazine
3y ago
March 2021
To understand the origins of our universe, we must be prepared to undertake a risky journey.
Guido Tonelli
Wandjina rock art
Excerpted from Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began by Guido Tonelli (translated from the original by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell). Copyright © 2021 by Guido Tonelli. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission.
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