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Humans, animals and the sensory world

Artists and medics through the ages have made links between our discerning human senses and similar traits in animals. Discover how close we are to the earth’s other inhabitants.

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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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An animated almanac for the modern world

Discover why Thomas Coleman wanted to make a medieval folding almanac relevant to the modern world and see the film for yourself.

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How depression ruined my relationship with sleep

One reaction to depression is a craving for sleep, creating a dependence that can provoke guilt and anxiety. Emerging from “five blurry years”, one writer tracks her steps to better health.

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  • A drunk man in Russia likened to a pig: his silhouette is swinish and he is licked by a pig when he lies dead drunk with vodka. Watercolour, 195-.
  • A woman breast feeding two puppies while a Mexican man and woman implore her to feed their baby, which is lying on the floor on a bed of straw. Chromolithograph after A. Utrillo Viadera.
  • A woman breast feeding two puppies while a Mexican man and woman implore her to feed their baby, which is lying on the floor on a bed of straw. Chromolithograph after A. Utrillo Viadera.
  • A pair of obese gouty men in night-caps gaping at a fly in fear that it may land on a gouty limb. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1796, after G.M. Woodward.
  • A woman feeding a nest of baby birds. Engraving by F.A. Moitte after J.B. Greuze.
  • The animals enter the Ark. Etching.
  • Adam naming the animals. Etching by G. Scotin and J. Cole after H. Gravelot and J.B. Chatelain, 1743.
  • Adam overlooks the Garden of Eden. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.
  • A gang of hunters pretend to wash their eyes with a slimy substance, thus fooling the monkeys, who 'ape' them and blind themselves, allowing the hunters to move in. Line engraving by J. Collaert after J. van der Straet, c. 1610.
  • God creates man in the Garden of Eden. Coloured etching, 17--.
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