Stories
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Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
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Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude
Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?
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Eating their own kind
In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.
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The men who meddled with nature
The ‘acclimatisation societies’ of the 19th century sought to ‘improve’ on the natural world by releasing non-native species into the wild. The effects were disastrous.
Catalogue
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Animal reproduction science
Date: 1978-- Books
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On human longevity and the amount of life upon the globe / by P. Flourens ; translated from the French second edition, by Charles Martel.
Flourens, P. (Pierre), 1794-1867.Date: 1855- Books
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Traité des maladies vermineuses dans les animaux / par M. Chabert.
Chabert, M. (Philibert), 1737-1814.Date: MDCCLXXXVII [1787]- Journals
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Theriogenology
Date: 1974-- Books
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Die Entwicklung der Gehirnbahnen in der Thierreihe / von L. Edinger.
Edinger, Ludwig, 1855-1918.Date: 1896