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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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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.

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History of condoms from animal to rubber

Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.

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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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  • Four ibexes or mountain goats. Watercolour.
  • Two goats born with one head and two bodies.
  • Two goats born with one head and two bodies.
  • Angora goats and white footed antelopes. Etching by T. Thornton.
  • Goats being milked outside a farm and dogs setting off on a hunt; representing spring. Etching, 17--, after F.G. Bassano the younger.
  • Four goats: above, A four horned and a common goat, below, a cashmere goat and a Rocky mountain goat. Coloured etching by T. Landseer.
  • Luxor, Egypt; cattle and livestock market. Shows extent of market in N0022543C with many men, donkeys, goats and cattle. The two men in the foreground have just purchased goats. Photographed January 1990.
  • Paul Ehrlich's assistants and laboratory animals including goats. Probably at the Frankfurt Serum Institute
  • Some astounding facts about goats milk and its cure of infantile eczema / by Gilbert Harris.
  • Some astounding facts about goats milk and its cure of infantile eczema / by Gilbert Harris.
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