Refugia
About this book
Relic species extinct everywhere else on the planet thrive on a remote archipelago. Evolution requires isolation, and these islands offer the perfect environment for genetic variation to take place, fostering new and unique forms of flora and fauna. Evolutionary biologists Emily and Roland have come on an extended field expedition to this secluded world, eager to expose its unique biosphere.
As they work to gather a large dataset of dead specimens for study and description, Emily and Roland experience growing shifts in their perception, in their bodies, and even in the flow of linear time. The environment they have come to quantify acts upon them, the species they collect observe and comment upon them, and the controlled lens of science cannot save them. Succumbing to the dynamic power of isolation, they find themselves irrevocably changed.
A poetic novel told through field notes, letters, and scientific data, Refugia is a story of discovery and transformation that shows the hubris inherent in the idea that humans live both outside, and at the center of, the natural world. This is a book that reveals science in all its imperfect beauty, crossing the line between observer and observed, scientist and subject, between what is known and what is unknowable.
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Table of contents
- april 5 electrophoresis
- 1
- Dear Bear,
- april 7 peregrination
- Dear Mouse,
- april 11 extant
- Dear Bear,
- april 15 fortuitist
- 2
- Dear Mouse,
- may 5 littoral
- 3
- Dear Bear,
- 4
- Dear Mouse,
- may 11 interorbital
- 5
- Dear Bear,
- 6
- Dear Mouse,
- 7
- Dear Mouse,
- may 14 ventral
- 8
- Dear Bear,
- may 20 unicuspid
- 9
- may 25 endemism
- 10
- Dear Bear,
- june 1 condylobasal
- 11
- Dear Mouse,
- june 4 diaspore
- 12
- Dear Bear,
- june 9 morphological
- 13
- Dear Mouse,
- june 14 insularity
- 14
- Dear Bear,
- june 20 lagomorphs
- 15
- Dear Mouse,
- june 22 quiescent
- 16
- Dear Bear,
- june 28 stratigraphy
- 17
- Dear Mouse,
- july 2 pelage
- 18
- Dear Bear,
- july 5 ungulate
- 19
- Dear Mouse,
- july 9 ermine
- 20
- Dear Mouse,
- july 12 concomitant
- july 15 pleistonerene
- 21
- Dear Bear,
- july 19 occam’s razor
- 22
- Dear Mouse,
- july 21 ascribe
- july 26 taxonomist
- 23
- Dear Bear,
- july 29 soma
- 24
- Dear Mouse,
- july 30 strata
- august 2 scintilla
- 25
- Dear Bear,
- august 4 littoral
- 26
- Dear Mouse,
- august 7 maxillary
- 27
- Dear Mouse,
- august 10 peregrination
- 28
- Dear Mouse,
- august 12 eustatic
- 29
- Dear Bear,
- august 20 depauperate
- 30
- Dear Bear,
- august 29
- 31
- Dear Mouse,
- september 3
- 32
- Dear Mouse,
- september 15
- 33
- september 18
- 34
- Dear Bear,
- september 28 dorsal
- 35
- Dear Mouse,
- october 4 dentition
- 36
- Dear Mouse,
- 37
- october 10 extant
- 38
- Dear Bear,
- 40
- october 20 palantine
- Acknowledgements