#carlzimmer

[planetaeris]

“Influenza. Si cierras los ojos y pronuncias la palabra en voz alta, suena encantadora. Le iría que ni pintado a un agradable e histórico pueblecito italiano.” Un planeta de virus Carl Zimmer A Planet of Viruses Traduce Antonio Lozano Edita @capitan_swing_libros #unplanetadevirus #aplanetofviruses #carlzimmer #libros #ensayo #lecturas #books #bookstagramespaña #booklife #booklover #bookaddict #playmobilandbooks #playmobilscenes #playmobilscience #playmobilfans #playmobilfigures #playmobilinstagram #playmobilespaña #playmobilphotography #playmobilplanet #planetaeris (en Capitán Swing) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEji-LnF-ny/?igshid=1mi9kd77f41xy

[oylays]

Carl Zimmer with OYLA Youth science magazine (www.oyla-science.com) on the World Science Festival, New York #technology #oylaoylauouth #oylasciencemagazine #carlzimmer #carkzimmer #zimmer #science (at NYU Global Center)

[hannahroseweinberger]

As Humans Change Landscape, Brains of Some Animals Change, Too

In his most recent piece for The New York Times, science writer Carl Zimmer explains how human manipulation of landscapes might contribute toward larger brain size in animal populations. The animals best able to navigate changing habitats, researchers say, are the animals whose populations have become intelligent enough to adapt to them. 

I really enjoy most of Zimmer's writing, but I think he could have better clarified that growth in brain size occurs over the course of generations, not within individual members of a species, and that populations don't consciously 'evolve' to meet the demands of an environment. Rather, if certain individuals are lucky enough to have an adaptive quality, they are the ones who survive long enough to create offspring like themselves (as he noted briefly regarding small fish).

[bodyofmicrobes]

Probably the most beautiful graphic of a virus I've seen. Works great as an intro to Carl Zimmer's post on the human virome.