To finish off the work week, what better thing could we have than Gus the Earless Canadian Cat being read a bedtime chapter on speciation from WEIT? Here reader Taskin takes a few liberties with the text in my chapter on speciation (Chapter 7, “The Origin of Species,” p. 168), a chapter that I’m quite proud of. You’ll hear the interpolation of felid-related items, but be sure not to miss the introductory quote by M.E.O. Wilson and the reference to Ernst Mayr’s “felid experience” (which I didn’t realize was a rearrangement of “field experience.” The drawing of the cat is of Gus’s late predecessor, the black Spook.
Gus, however, isn’t very interested. So much for getting a cat to learn about its evolutionary origins.
Gus is so cute!
He is interested; he is just pretending not to be!
Meow!
b&
“Yes Hooman, this pleases me.”
Speaking of cats, here’s CAT WATCH 2014:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lcqvq
What’s it like being a cat?:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28795300
Thanks for that.
Thanks for the links!
submeow
This cat just got WEIT in the mail today–some of us show our admiration for you, Jerry, by putting our money where our mouths are and buying your books!