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A little wildness

To salve her longing for a dog, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan chose a puppy. She found that, despite centuries of domestication, her dog still retains aspects of her wild ancestry.

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Notes upon arrival

In an effort to feel at home back in the country of her birth, poet Bhanu Kapil recognises the small revelations of nature in a chilly UK spring as a way to reconnect.

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A history of gestation outside the body

It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.

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  • Saint-Benoît, La Réunion, Indian Ocean: a waterfall in the Rivière des Roches, seen from the lowest of three water levels. Aquatint by G. Gallina, ca. 1819, after J.J. Patu de Rosemont.
  • J. Astruc, De morbis veneris libri sex
  • A cat born with two heads. Engraving by J. Chevillet, 1756, after J. De Sève.
  • De la physiologie dans ses rapports avec la philosophie / [J.-J. Virey].
  • De formato foetu. [De brutorum loquela. De venarum ostiolis. De locutione et eius instrumentis liber / a J. Ursino editus].
  • De formato foetu. [De brutorum loquela. De venarum ostiolis. De locutione et eius instrumentis liber / a J. Ursino editus].
  • De formato foetu. [De brutorum loquela. De venarum ostiolis. De locutione et eius instrumentis liber / a J. Ursino editus].
  • De formato foetu. [De brutorum loquela. De venarum ostiolis. De locutione et eius instrumentis liber / a J. Ursino editus].
  • De formato foetu. [De brutorum loquela. De venarum ostiolis. De locutione et eius instrumentis liber / a J. Ursino editus].
  • De formato foetu. [De brutorum loquela. De venarum ostiolis. De locutione et eius instrumentis liber / a J. Ursino editus].
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