Monthly Archives: March 2011

and your eyes steal my light so you can shine in mine

You steal my time You steal my energies You don’t listen to the lament You don’t listen to the call You crack my boldness You make my wait vain The evenings I wait for you, the afternoons waiting for the evening You steal my mornings Because I wake up alone, and it’s not nice You

Why did they win? II. Learning to fly

A few months ago I was asking myself: why, among all terrestrial Arthropoda, insects came out as the obvious exceptional winners? That is, why did only Insecta develop killer features like flight, metamorphosis and eusociality that allowed them to be the most successful group of pluricellular life? Well, it seems we have a tentative answer