WHY FISH DON'T EXIST

David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with di scovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. But the more of the hidden blueprint of life he uncovered, the hard er the universe seemed to try to thwart him. His specimen collections were demolished by lightning, by fire, and eventually by the 1 906 San Francisco earthquakewhich sent more than a thousand discoveries, housed in fragile glass jars, plummeting to the floor. In an instant...[Read more]