Greg Priest (@gregpriest.bsky.social)さんのイラストまとめ

#Haeckel’s wife Anna Sethe died unexpectedly after they had only been married 18 months. Shortly after her death, he discovered a jellyfish whose tentacles reminded him of Anna’s hair, naming it Mitrocoma Annae (L). He later named Desmonema annasethe (R) after her. https://t.co/CWJHMkwgV5

I haven’t studied it at all, but you can immediately see a marked similarity between the sketch on p63 of the newly digitized notebook and the frontispiece to #Lyell’s Principles of Geology.

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#OTD in 1872, Charles #Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was published.

As bold in its own way as the Origin, Expression posited that the same emotions and the same modes of expression are universal across humans and many animals. 1/4

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We all know #Darwin’s finches, but how about his giant daisies?

On Galápagos, he found 6 species, each endemic to its own island. Turns out there are more species, and their phylogeny is weirder than he thought, with more speciation within than between islands, convergences, etc https://t.co/ePTOuc0TiL

This image (expanded upon in the thread) shows dangerous air quality levels reaching England from California and Oregon wildfires. https://t.co/vEodc195Q9

The image is by one of my absolute favorites.

The below are from Figuier’s La Terre avant le Déluge (The World before the Flood). Images: Wikimedia Commons.

#HistSci #HistSTM #SciArt https://t.co/OU8KGJ6A59

Odile based her diagram on an original sketch prepared for her by Francis (below left). Odile was an artist. One of her paintings is below right.

For more on the role of diagrams in Crick and Watson’s contributions to the structure of DNA, see https://t.co/xR6kXVp0AG. 2/2

A review essay has appeared by @DavidQuammen in @nybooks covering three recent books about #Darwin:

Ken Thompson: Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants

@eahennessy: On the Backs of Tortoises

@BillHWJenkins: Evolution Before Darwin

https://t.co/t4rtCFFCbg

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“By combining clues from artwork [by Piero della Francesca, Rafael, and others], ancient manuscripts, and oral histories, she was able to identify hundreds of Renaissance-era fruits. She now grows many of them in a 20-acre farmstead as an outdoor museum of Italy’s past”

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