Biology Is The Science. Evolution Is The

Bird Taxonomy Is A Difficult Field Because Of The Severe Anatomical Constraints Imposed By Flight. There Are Only So Many Ways To Design A Bird Capable, Say, Of Catching Insects In Mid-air, With The Result That Birds Of Similar Habitats Tend To Have Very Similar Anatomies, Whatever Their Ancestry. For Example, American Vultures Look And Behave Much Like Old World Vultures, But Biologists Have Come To Realize That The Former Are Related To Storks, The Latter To Hawks, And That Their Resemblances Result From Their Common Lifestyle.

Even To This Day, No Native Australian Animal Species And Only One Plant Species-the Macadamia Nut-have Proved Suitable For Domestication. There Still Are No Domestic Kangaroos.

The Adoption Of Agriculture, Supposedly Our Most Decisive Step Toward A Better Life, Was In Many Ways A Catastrophe From Which We Have Never Recovered.

With The Macarthur Grant, I Realized That People Have High Expectations Of Me, That They Were Placing Me In This Group Of Achievers. I Compared What Id Actually Achieved In My Life With What I Would Like To Achieve And What Other People Have Achieved, And I Found That Comparison Depressing.

History Followed Different Courses For Different Peoples Because Of Differences Among Peoples' Environments, Not Because Of Biological Differences Among Peoples Themselves