Category: Ecology
Counterfactual History
September 22, 2012If we consider contemporary human size as just one possible outcome of different evolutionary possibilities then perhaps it becomes easier to envision a different, short-sized, future. What if human evolution had developed differently? Counterfactual history tries to answer what-if questions. It explores history by means…
Abundance Fantasies: Corn Cult
July 27, 2012Global Human Biomass
June 22, 2012Six Cities / Empty World
June 20, 2012Tiny House Movement
April 15, 2012Parental Height Minus 10
March 14, 2012Benito’s Rodents
February 20, 2012Poultry/House
February 11, 2012Krill Adaptations
January 28, 2012Because environments vary with both predictable patterns and with unpredictable but recurring events, ecologists have long been interested in the ecological adaptations that organisms use to survive periods in which the environment may be exceptionally harsh. One of the most interesting adaptations observed in the…