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...Zoologist David T. Suzuki told a packed Science Center B that humans are on “a suicidal path” as a species, as he accepted the 2006 Roger Tory Peterson Medal from the Harvard Museum of Natural History yesterday. Suzuki blamed unsustainable population growth and economic expansion for “shattering” the connection between humans and nature. Suzuki, author of more than 30 books, host of a popular nature television series, and honorary member of two Native American tribes, was presented with the Peterson award for his work in sustainable ecology and environmental advocacy...
...protest was led by a group of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Medical School students called the Kinsey 2 to 6’ers. They take their name from zoologist and sexuality researcher Alfred C. Kinsey’s six-point scale. Individuals who scored two or higher on Kinsey’s scale were deemed “more than incidentally homosexual,” according to the website of the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University...
...organisms that dwell in desert springs would be important to more than just ecologists and taxonomists. Those tiny animals are indicator species, the canaries in the environmental coal mine that provide the first warning that the whole system is coming unhinged. "When these organisms disappear," says University of Michigan zoologist Gerald Smith, "it will signal the end of water quality and water permanence for humans in desert regions...
...Zoologist turned Author Desmond Morris had a remunerative idea when he wrote The Naked Ape (1967), a work of pop anthropology that appealed to millions of book-buying bipeds. Bodywatching repeats such monkey business, this time with illustrations. Morris announces his intention "to treat the body surface as if it were a strange landscape." In practice, this means giving separate chapters and full photographic uncoverage to such geographic features as eyes, ears, nose, neck, shoulders and belly, not to mention those areas that the lads of Monty Python's Flying Circus once referred to as "the naughty bits...
Hanken, the Harvard zoologist who chatted with Ali G, says he has “no interest whatsoever” in seeing today’s Class Day speaker...