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One of the things I really like about Tumblr is there seems to be a healthy appreciation for invertebrate biology here, which I don’t always see as much on other social media websites. Tumblr users overall seem to love bugs, and it’s important to me that every person who loves bugs knows the name Charles Henry Turner. If you’re not yet familiar with this man, I’m delighted to introduce you to one of the most remarkable minds ever born of this earth, and a true pioneer in the field of entomology and animal behavior.

Charles Turner was born in the United States just a few years after the end of the civil war. His brilliance was evident from the start, and after graduating valedictorian of his high school class he quickly went on to earn his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in short order. While in school, Turner’s relentless curiosity became his greatest advantage. He was drawn to and fascinated by topics that were largely ignored by modern science at the time, namely the cognitive behaviors of insects and other invertebrates. While many of his colleagues believed insects to be mindless automata acting on instinct alone, Turner felt deeply that the brains of these oft overlooked animals were far more complex than the scientific community suspected. He performed extensive experiments to test his theories and found overwhelming evidence of problem solving and individualism among organisms as small as ants and spiders.

By the time Turner earned his zoology pHD in 1907 he had published dozens of papers in highly esteemed journals and had even co-authored a book. It is likely that Turner was the first African American to earn a pHD from the University of Chicago. With such a sparkling academic reputation and enormous body of research, one would expect this candidate to have no issues obtaining a professorship at a prestigious school. Though by every right Turner should have been head of science department at a top university, the systemic racism that permeated academia meant that doors a white man would have walked through were locked and bolted shut for Charles Henry Turner.

Turner did not allow this prejudice to dim in any way his blindingly bright passion for knowledge. He took a job as a high school teacher, and continued to perform and publish research on his own all while he instilled his students with a love for zoology. He published more than 70 papers in extremely respected journals and he remained passionately curious for the entirety of his life. If I tried to list here all of the incredible discoveries Turner made in his lifetime it would take me days to sufficiently express the impact he had on the field of invertebrate behavior. His experiments were so ahead of their time that entomologists today marvel at his research and wonder how much more we would know if Turner’s work had been given the attention and respect of other scientists working at the time. Turner’s mind was about a century ahead of those entomological contemporaries who had no interest in giving him a seat at the table. His tombstone simply reads “scientist”

Like many people of color throughout history, Turner’s exceptional contributions to our world have been unfairly overlooked by many. His name has historically been left out of entomology textbooks and courses, despite laying down groundwork that is still used today. I really recommend that anyone interested in entomology or even biology in general read up on Charles Henry Turner and his works. This is an excellent article that discusses his many challenges and triumphs in the field.

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Picture from either the photographer Honey Gilmore, or Kalynn Youngblood, in her series Staged Portraiture and Documenting daily Black Life.

This is all I need in my life.

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Susie Kissing Sally by Virginia artist Susan Singer

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I finished painting my coral reef crocodile, Lydia :)

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read one time that bonobos and humans are the only animals that mate face to face, which is false and the writer must have used an unnecessarily restrictive definition of "animals," because millipedes also mate face to face

How do I know this? well i turned over some leaves one time and mistakenly exposed a millipede couple in the throes of passion. was worried at first that they were eating each other or something but I looked it up and thats how they have sex

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oh my god???

no one told me that millipede sex is cute??

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Lobsters and crawfish do too 😃

The primary difference, scientifically speaking, is that while millipedes make love, crawfish FUCK

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Aaron Morse - Cloud World (Shepherd with Wildflowers), 2016, acrylic and oil on canvas, 48 x 38 in

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Im autistic and I love spice and tacos and rap music i think you're just a pussy

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Chelicerae of a tarantula By: Unknown photographer From: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Animal Kingdom 1968

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Feeling like the "friend who's too woke" when I tell people not to mock trump for wearing a diaper or shitting himself or whatever.

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the problem with this man is not and never has been that he is ugly or poorly dressed or fat or incontinent, it is that he is an evil dangerous cruel malicious man with the powers of the presidency