The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science by Leroi Armand Marie

Author:Leroi, Armand Marie [Leroi, Armand Marie]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

* He also thinks that some over-winter, naked, in holes. In 1862 Philip Henry Gosse (Romance of Natural History, 2nd series) was still wondering whether this is true.

† Chicken hatchlings are used in regeneration research since they can regrow lenses and retinas after experimental ablation. Since swallow hatchlings are more altricial than chicken hatchlings, they may well be even better at this, but it will be a hard-hearted, not to say brave, researcher who tries to find out.

* Aristotle says that a newly born bear is very small and poorly formed, indeed that its limbs are unarticulated, and he also says that the mother bear (as well as the vixen) aids the ‘concoction’ of her cubs by licking them. This, via Roman exaggeration (Pliny, Ovid, Virgil), gave rise to the expression used by irate parents and coaches to their charges: ‘You need to be licked into shape.’

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