If I ever write a popular environmental book, I am going to call it “I Hate Thoreau’s Bastard Children: Why Modern Environmental Writing Sucks.” The pernicious influence of Transcendentalism lingers like a poison oak rash every time someone gets an urge to write about nature. I’ve occasionally thought of making a drinking game as the . . . → Read More: Book Review: Carl Safina’s The View from Lazy Point
By Kevin Zelnio, on  June 17th, 2008 Mating & Reproduction, New Research, Organisms Barnacle, Best of Zelnio, Hermaphrodites, Long Island, Mating, New York, Penis, Reproduction, Rocky Intertidal, Seasonality, Semibalanus, Sessile, Sex Allocation Theory, Trade-Offs, Wave Exposure Spring is in the air! Its the time of year to release your gametes into the water and make baby barnacles. But wait a second, you are a permanent fixture on a rock. Can’t move. What is a young, lovestruck sessile she-male to do? Well, if you are hung like a barnacle you don’t really . . . → Read More: Environment Shapes Barnacle Penis
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