Just had this really random thought this afternoon (yes, it's been raining a lot here).
When South America, an island continent since the late Cretaceous (splitting off from the rest of Gondwanaland) collided into North America 10k years ago, many North American animals came into South America - the Great American exchange and wiped out most of the endemic South American fauna. We lost so many of the South American marsupials... (left with the Australian ones today...), the big flightless carnivorous South American birds. Modern South American fauna is mostly of North American origin.
Parallel play.
Immigration issues in USA today with the Hispanic-speaking populations who originated from Latin America. They moved up North for jobs etc and now find themselves likely to be persecuted. Many demonstrations going on recently. The movement of Latin-Americans from South America up north, colliding with the Anglo-Americans.
Interesting quirk or just my mind making messed-up connections.
Must be the work of reading Tocqueville. Oh yah, i'm taking Introduction to Comparative Politics this quarter. Haha... my first ever non Biol. Sci. class in years. Excited about it.... the assignments sound fun. One is to write about state formation of 1 nation and the other is to assess the role of a chosen variable on the process of democratisation. Thinking of writing about an African state... or possibly a European state carved out post WW One, with the collapse of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires.
Also taking Human Behavioural Biology. Another venture into the realm of sociobiology and psych. Alas, the first half of the class is basic bio, meant for newcomers to this playing field.
Class 3 is Biogeography. I love Biogeog. "The Song of the Dodo" by David Quammen is such a great book. Have a blooming idea of the paper i'm going to write for this class.. might have something to do with tiger subspecies, with their huge diversity in South East Asia.
The final class i'm taking is Plant Biochemistry. Back to my 老本行. It's a neat class, looking at techniques to study plant biochemistry. So far we've looked at protein degradation/auxin signalling and photoreceptors. Things specific to plants... Animals don't use auxin as a growth regulator.
Four classes. Lots of primary reading. HAHA... Going mad.
When South America, an island continent since the late Cretaceous (splitting off from the rest of Gondwanaland) collided into North America 10k years ago, many North American animals came into South America - the Great American exchange and wiped out most of the endemic South American fauna. We lost so many of the South American marsupials... (left with the Australian ones today...), the big flightless carnivorous South American birds. Modern South American fauna is mostly of North American origin.
Parallel play.
Immigration issues in USA today with the Hispanic-speaking populations who originated from Latin America. They moved up North for jobs etc and now find themselves likely to be persecuted. Many demonstrations going on recently. The movement of Latin-Americans from South America up north, colliding with the Anglo-Americans.
Interesting quirk or just my mind making messed-up connections.
Must be the work of reading Tocqueville. Oh yah, i'm taking Introduction to Comparative Politics this quarter. Haha... my first ever non Biol. Sci. class in years. Excited about it.... the assignments sound fun. One is to write about state formation of 1 nation and the other is to assess the role of a chosen variable on the process of democratisation. Thinking of writing about an African state... or possibly a European state carved out post WW One, with the collapse of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires.
Also taking Human Behavioural Biology. Another venture into the realm of sociobiology and psych. Alas, the first half of the class is basic bio, meant for newcomers to this playing field.
Class 3 is Biogeography. I love Biogeog. "The Song of the Dodo" by David Quammen is such a great book. Have a blooming idea of the paper i'm going to write for this class.. might have something to do with tiger subspecies, with their huge diversity in South East Asia.
The final class i'm taking is Plant Biochemistry. Back to my 老本行. It's a neat class, looking at techniques to study plant biochemistry. So far we've looked at protein degradation/auxin signalling and photoreceptors. Things specific to plants... Animals don't use auxin as a growth regulator.
Four classes. Lots of primary reading. HAHA... Going mad.
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