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Month: February 2017

February 16, 2017Mihnea Tanasescu

Understanding Ourselves Through the Land

It is often said that it is since Darwin that we know of our natural history. This is unconvincing, because countless cultures before ours knew very well that they were related to animals and that they were, first and foremost, members of a wider biotic community; they simply did not have testable hypotheses as to […]

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February 3, 2017February 3, 2017Mihnea Tanasescu

Land Abandonment in Europe

We usually think of the American and African continents as the places of big, untouched, wilderness. Whatever the merits of this view (amply and ably  disputed), it at least serves to make a negative point: in Europe, the kind of nature that superficially looks untouched doesn’t really exist. What Europeans call nature is a deeply […]

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