The first mite: insect genealogy in Hooke’s Micrographia.
What happens when you take the idea of the biblical Adam—the first human - and apply it to insects? You create an origin story for Nature’s tiniest creatures, one that gives them ‘a Pedigree as ancient as the first creation’. This the naturalist Robert Hooke argued in his treatise, the Micrographia...
| Publicado en: | Annals of Science Vol. 75; no. 3; pp. 165 - 201 |
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