I am finally finishing a book that I found by chance, last year, in a beautiful second-hand English bookshop in Amsterdam. Death of a Hornet,…
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Today this remarkable post by Google researchers is a sensation around, and for good reasons. It explains itself pretty well, but quickly speaking, here’s the…
Leave a CommentSince five hundred million years, something is burrowing on the ocean floor. We see its unique traces: two-dimensional grids of burrows, tracing an hexagonal pattern.…
3 CommentsA few months ago I was asking myself: why, among all terrestrial Arthropoda, insects came out as the obvious exceptional winners? That is, why did…
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3 CommentsWhy did insects win? The question, to me, is not peregrine. Arthropoda include a lot of moderately to robustly successful terrestrial groups: Arachnida and the…
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