September 26, 2011
September 18, 2011
Hybridization Zones
A hybrid zone exists where the ranges of two interbreeding species meet. For a hybrid zone to be stable, the offspring produced by the cross (the hybrids) have to be less fit than members of the parent species. Hybrid zones and gene flow do not inevitably lead to the recombination of the two populations involved, but can instead continue for thousands of years. The predominant explanation for this is that the hybrid zone represents a ‘tension zone' between the conflicting effects of dispersal of parental forms and selection against hybrids.
A New Shape in Ship Travel - 1961
“Emerging from the mist over the North River, like Caesar approaching Rome, a legion of city dignitaries aboard the tugboat Cynthia Moran pulled into the south side of the old Pier 38 at the foot of King St. yesterday… Debarking were more than 100 businessmen, labor leaders and city officials [for a] gala, old style ceremony marking the first concrete pour in the construction of New Pier 40.”
The Villager 1958
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Cerebus by Bernini - 1622
"There have been, and continue to be, extreme circumstances in history when the human body was literally partitioned, but most occur during periods of war or terror, when “humanness,” as an idea, explodes into an animal existence that belongs, always to some prehistoric being: to mythical animals such as Hades's dog Cerebus in Bernini's sculpture, in which the animal stands for sheer brutality and violence.”Ingraham, Catherine. Architecture, animal, human the asymmetrical condition. Abingdon, UK New York, NY: Routledge, 2006.
“[…] What had to remain in the collective unconscious as a monstrous hybrid of human and animal, divided between the forest and the city – the werewolf – is, therefore, in its origin the figure of the man who has been banned from the city. “
Agamben, Giorgio. Homo sacer. Stanford Calif.: Stanford University Press 1998. Print
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Frankenstein - 1818
"I collected bones from charnel houses the tremendous secrets of the human frame."
"The dissecting-room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials."
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