Pond Scum Is Our Equal: That’s Nature Rights for You

China, Climate Week, Culture & Ethics, earth goddess, fossil fuels, grass, human race, human thriving, Life Sciences, Luddism, mining, mosquitoes, natural gas, nature rights, nonhuman beings, Pachamama, pipeline construction, pond scum, resources, Rights of Nature Tribunal, scallops, self-loathing, squirrels, trees
Now, a “tribunal” will be held in New York to promote the rights of nature and undermine public support for fossil fuels. Source
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Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Lagomorphs and Rodents

beavers, Carl von Linné, China, comparative morphology, Cretaceous, Dan Graur, Darwinism, Early Paleocene, East Asia, Euarchontoglires, Evolution, Fossil Friday, fossil record, Glires, guinea pigs, gundis, hamsters, hares, incongruence, Lagomorpha, Lagomorphs, mammals, mice, molecular clock studies, Mongolia, Nebraska, Oligocene, Palaeolagus haydeni, Paleocene, PaleoDB, paleontology, pikas, placental mammals, porcupines, rabbits, rats, Rodentia, rodents, squirrels, Systema Naturae, Tübingen
Molecular biologist Dan Graur mentioned his weird idea that guinea pigs are not rodents at a lecture at my university in Tübingen when I was still a student. Source
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