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Something’s been bugging us

by and | 01 October 2010

Marginalising insects is part of a poor prejudice It is easy to see how increasing similarity to an organism bears a correlation to our opinion of it. Primates easily elicit the greatest human empathy, and mammals in general elicit a positive response. As we go further back through the phylogenetic tree, we see a general [...]

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Biodiversity: Not in the fiction section

Environment, Society

Biodiversity: Not in the fiction section

by | 13 July 2010

It is ironic that while the need for environmental awareness has only been increasing in recent years, it is the lack of just that which now plagues our society.

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