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1,043 results for: Butterflies
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Finding Form
Biologist Sean Carroll maintains a site devoted to the genetics of animal body designs and evolution. Read about advances in the emerging field of evolutionary developmental biology and watch brief movies of embryo formation in fruit flies, butterfly wing development, and other natural wonders. Go to: http://www.molbio.wisc.edu/carroll/index.html
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Cool Science for Kids
This Web site, produced by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, provides hands-on science activities for elementary-school students. It uses animation, sound, quizzes, and other techniques to encourage kids to explore biology. Activities include building a model of a butterfly emerging from a cocoon and identifying which parts of plants belong in the family salad bowl. […]
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More Than Monarchs
More Than Monarchs.org exists to raise awareness about the devastating impact of illegal logging on the environment and local communities in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in central Mexico. The Web site provides a platform for villagers, community leaders, government officials, and other people to communicate and collaborate toward ending the destruction of forests that […]
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Science Future for January 29, 2011
February 11 – 13 Explore geology at the 60th Annual Agate and Mineral Show at Portland, Oregon’s science museum. See www.omsi.edu February 13 Boston’s Museum of Science officially reopens its planetarium with a show about exoplanets. Go to www.mos.org February 14 Savor a “miracle fruit” berry that deceives taste buds, in a butterfly rain forest […]
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Science Future for June 4, 2011
June 27 Go behind the scenes of Houston’s Cockrell Butterfly Center. Go to https://store.hmns.org July 15–17 Swim with the world’s largest fish at the fourth annual Whale Shark Festival in Isla Mujeres, Mexico. More information at www.whalesharkfest.com
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Butterflies and Moths: Portraits from the Tropical Forests of Costa Rica by J.C. Miller, D.H. Janzen and W. Hallwachs
Full-page photos and text unveil Costa Rican Lepidoptera. BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS: PORTRAITS FROM THE TROPICAL FORESTS OF COSTA RICA BY J.C. MILLER, D.H. JANZEN AND W. HALLWACHS Belknap Press/Harvard Univ. Press, 2010, 256 p., $24.95.
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The Exquisite Butterfly Companion: The Science and Beauty of 100 Butterflies by Hazel Davies
This guide to 100 butterfly and moth species comes with a set of butterfly-shaped illustrations to use in craft projects. Sterling Signature, 2011, 88 p., $14.95
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In grad school, I read and learned from Ernst Mayr’s Populations, Species, and Evolution (1963, 1970, Harvard University Press). I think that “Alarming butterflies and go-getter fish” extremely simplifies Mayr’s position on speciation. The article says that Mayr focuses solely on geographic separation, “allopathic speciation.” This ignores the fact that Mayr discussed a variety of […]
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From the June 11, 1932, issue
BUTTERFLIES, “WINGED JEWELS,” ARE GEMS AT START OF LIFE Butterflies have been called “winged jewels” so often that the conceit can hardly be considered poetic any longer. Yet the appropriateness of the old metaphor receives new confirmation when we look at the egg of a butterfly, which represents the humblest beginning of its career of […]
