21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2020-08-17 03:43:19

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INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP. "The direct dependence of hunter gathers on natural ecosystems for their food, and the intimate knowledge of the natural world that this requires, is generally reflected in their beliefs and attitudes toward nature and wildlife. Such peoples commonly view themselves as inseparable from the natural ecosystems and wildlife around them." https://lnkd.in/defU-EJ View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2020-08-17 03:41:32

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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES from outside of the Western culture have lived with intimate connections with forests and with plants since humanity began. Their views about plant lives, and how the live in close connection with plants, are radically distinct from the Western Socratic perception. View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments
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PLANT EXPEDITIONS. “As the 18th century became the 19th, ethnobotany saw expeditions undertaken with more colonial aims rather than trade economics such as that of Lewis and Clarke which recorded both plants and the peoples encountered use of them. Edward Palmer collected material culture artifacts and botanical specimens from people in the North American West (Great Basin) and Mexico from the 1860s to the 1890s. Through all of this research, the field of "aboriginal botany" was established—the study of all forms of the vegetable world which aboriginal peoples use for food, medicine, textiles, ornaments and more.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnobotany View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2020-08-17 03:34:05

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ETHNOBOTANY. “The age of enlightenment saw a rise in economic botanical exploration. Alexander von Humboldt collected data from the New World, and James Cook's voyages brought back collections and information on plants from the South Pacific. At this time major botanical gardens were started, for instance the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1759. The directors of the gardens sent out gardener-botanist explorers to care for and collect plants to add to their collections.” https://lnkd.in/dmU_6jn View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2020-08-16 05:34:33

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SO ENDS this first of two weekends devoted to an evo-devo analysis of the human nose. As a case study, it is an exemplary example of the power of combining evolution and development as tools to untangle a complex dual function organ like the nose. While you may not have spent sleepless nights worrying about these questions, this very elegant article guides you effortlessly between arcane medical school anatomy, involuted embryology and taxa surveys to answer this question. Walk in somebody else’s shoes a mile or two. View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2020-08-18 04:33:40

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"TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE seeks to comprehend such complexity by operating from a different epistemological basis. It eschews reductionism, placing little emphasis on studying small parts of the ecological system in isolation from the dependent interacting biophysical milieu. It also recognizes that the reductionist approach is impractical in the extreme: even if one were to know everything there was to know about everything of importance under all possible combinations and permutations of variability, such an immense database would be impossible to work with in practice." https://lnkd.in/dvpgYsT View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2020-08-16 05:25:17

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DOUBLE FUNCTION. “Thus, with the amphibians the primary olfactory nose has evolved towards a nose devoted to olfaction and respiration. The amphibian nose communicates externally via the external naris and connects with the oral cavity posteriorly to the primary palate by the internal naris. The nasal cavity of amphibians is lined by olfactory epithelium with the exception of its ventro-lateral wall region.” http://www.wjgnet.com/esps/DownLoadFile.aspx?Type=Digital&SubType=2&DOI=10.5319%2Fwjo.v6.i2.33&FilePath=Pub%5C10.5319%5Cv6%5Ci2%5CWJO-6-33.doc View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2020-08-18 04:31:57

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RANGE OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE. "Many scientists have begun to understand that such traditional knowledge extends far beyond what in western science would be called descriptive biology, beyond knowing how to identify different species of animals, or describe their feeding, reproduction, or migratory behaviour.” https://lnkd.in/dvpgYsT View in LinkedIn
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