Telmo Pievani in La vita inaspettata (The unexpected life), published in 2011, starts with Darwin, who he defines as the man who was the first to have the courage to «go beyond the mark»; he starts where Gould left off in concluding La vita meravigliosa (The Wonderful Life), and finally […]
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“When you arrive in the corner of the world,please be quiet.Stop all communication, forget time,and begin to understand this placeat the same time unknown and familiar.Some people get there by dreaming.Others when they read a book.Some find themselves playing,or when they enter a cinema.There is a corner of the world […]
What story is this? It is perhaps the most important story for the biodiversity of our planet! The history of a planet which at a certain point, around 460 million years ago, when most of the emerged lands were united in the supercontinent Gondwana, saw its rocks, until then marked […]
In a small town on the Gargano coast, when you don’t want to give something to a capricious child, you will say that he will get it “when the sea stops”. The incessant movements of the sea are the center of curiosity and observation of all human beings who have […]
By recommending “King Solomon’s Ring”, the book that made Konrad Lorenz and his research known to the general public, we want to talk precisely about the first steps that ethology, as a modern science, has taken.Considered by many to be the founder of ethology, Lorenz was awarded the 1973 Nobel […]