Animal Migrations: Endangered Phenomena

Cloning endangered animal species?

DNA banks for endangered animal species.

Although the loss of biodiversity resulting from extinctions is receiving increasing attention, the accompanying decrease in access to genetic resources has not been widely discussed. The threat of extinction for many species, both known and as yet undiscovered, grows ever greater as whole ecosystems vanish, human populations proliferate, and human-mediated interference increases. Even though e...

Animal models of speech perception phenomena

1. Introduction Science, by tradition and foundational philosophy, is conservative. General theories that are broad in application and austere in constructs and variables are preferred to proliferation of specific explanations for individual phenomena. When general, simple accounts no longer suffice as explanations of the available data, novel constructs and theories become necessary. Fifty yea...

Endangered languages, endangered knowledge

ogist, and ethnobiologist. She is cofounder and President of Terralingua: Partnerships for Linguistic and Biological Diversity. Terralingua is an international NGO based in Washington, DC, devoted to supporting the world’s linguistic diversity and to exploring the links between linguistic, cultural, and biological diversity, through research, information, education, and policy. She is editor of...

Step-by-Step Migrations

This paper considers a dynamic model of industry location in which there is a tension between two forces. First, there is the agglomerating force of preference of intermediate input variety that tends to keep an industry at its original location. Second, other location factors matter and these tend to pull the industry in the direction of a new location. A crucial aspect of the model is that th...