Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet – David Abram
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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The Uncanny Navigational Powers of Monarchs
How does an organism inherit such intricate instructions, precise navigational guidance that must be different for each successive generation? We do not know. The only way contemporary science seems able to fathom their uncanny navigational powers is by likening the abilities of these animals to technologies of our own human invention. But clocks, compasses and calendars are by definition external contrivances ingeniously built tools that we deploy at will.
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