..., as well as in ostensibly pro-gay claims that homosexuality is not acquired but biologically determined. Invoking Darwin, antigay groups claim that same-sex marriage will lead to human extinction because it does not serve the propagation of the species. However, this insistence on homosexual sterility...

... an experiment and an animal or plant object of study, which the essay approaches by showing how Darwin became a participant in his own orchid experiments. Taken together, these feminist readings of ecological and evolutionary phenomena result in the dissolution of species and even kingdom boundaries...

..., causality, and history” (251). 4 Malthus argued that man was also subject to this law of population: “Among plants and animals the view of the subject is simple. They are all impelled by a powerful instinct to the increase of their species, and this instinct is interrupted by no reasoning or doubts...

... Foundations of Culture .” Barkow, Cosmides, and Tooby 19 -136. Cox, Graham, and Tony Ashford. “Riddle Me This: The Craft and Concept of Animal Mind.” Science, Technology, and Human Values 23.4 ( 1998 ): 425 -38. Deacon, Terrence. The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain...

.... Her current research investigates the relationships between time, technicity, and animality in scientific determinations of environmentally harmful species. She has previously published in the journals Social Studies of Science and Environmental Philosophy and is currently working on a monograph...

.... Princeton: Princeton up, 1981 . ____. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. 1872. Ed. Konrad Lorenz. Rpt. Chicago: u of Chicago p, 1965 . ____. On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition . 1859. Ed. Ernst Mayr. Rpt. Cambridge: Harvardup, 1964...

... social sta- tus, capturing in terms of animal species the relation between nature and culture in the determination of social worth. A number of tales, indeed another minigenre within the whole, involve animals that seek to change...

... unnoticed both inside and outside academia. But while Singer has had enormous influence over the years in the area of animal rights, his effort to put the discrimination against non- human species on par with the prejudicial treatment and injustices...

... beavers and insects like bees, who collaborate purposively with their own species, or the affective and physical labor of domesticated animals in more dubious forms of “interspe- cies collaboration,” such as sport, hunting...

..., the zone of species contact is mediated by an interruption that voids actual encounter. Although Acampora is attending to the function of the gaze as opposed to a particular look, I wonder: How does captivity function...

... species of life, as well as of the rights, obligations, and duties proper to humanity as such) to consider, but also the fraught relationship between these theories and the forms in which they are actualized. It thus becomes imperative to specify...

... differences based on class, race, gender, and ethnicity found outside the parallel universe of the tabloids seem less signifi cant by replacing them with specious species-like dif- ference. The project...

...'” with Houston Baker. Bachman, John. The Doctrine of the Unity of the Human Race Examined on the Principles of Science. Charleston, S.C.: C. Canning, 1850 . ———. “An Investigation of the Cases of Hybridity in Animals, Considered in Reference to the Unity of the Human Species.” Charleston Medical...

... to be found in The Ray that is not of the thing or the species but of biomorphism itself, in its very grounds. Biomorphism is here carried beyond the non-contradictory space of Renaissance art into a historical dimension in which...

...” to the domineering half of the species. This essay will thus keep oscillating between the octopussy as particular historical case and as the reification of a universal male/female agon. Indeed, Solomon-Godeau’s invocation...

... unmarked, species man, a coherent subject. The marked organic body has been a critical locus of cultural and political contestation, crucial both to the languages of liberatory politics of identity and to systems of domination drawing on widely shared languages of nature constructed as resource...

... that they experienced as desire. Thus the sexual impulse that individuals sought to gratify served the natural end of the propaga- tion of the species. Such notions were easily adapted to society by later 58...

.... The creature’s curator, a woman named Margaret Wertheim, tells me in hushed tones that the remarkable thing I am now handling is the first of its kind that is not a “single-celled” species. In an article, she describes it as representnig its “own evolutionary path, which quickly developed into whole new...

... S. Kaufman, and Ryk Ward. “Race and Genomics.” nejm 348.12 ( 2003 ): 1166 -70. Dobzhansky, Theodosius. Genetics and the Origin of Species . 3rd ed. New York: Columbia up, 1951 . ____. “Comment.” Current Anthropology 3.3 ( 1962 ): 279 -80. Fields, Barbara. “Slavery, Race...

... would like to retain at this stage as a fundamental characteristic. At the same time, though, this functioning is indispensable to animal life for its role in the reproduction of the species, to such a degree that we can only conclude that the independence of the functioning ofjouissance with regard...