One of my many mottos in life is, “Aim for the moon. If you miss it, you may hit a star.” I have not reached the moon or hit a star, but my aims ...

Most complex organisms have a permanent hole for excreting waste. (Though there are exceptions, like the warty comb jelly, which forms an anus only when nature calls.) In bipeds and quadrupeds, the ...

In bipeds and quadrupeds, the general vicinity of this orifice is fairly obvious. That isn’t the case with the eight-armed octopus. You may already know that the cephalopods can change colors ...

But the paradigm has not fully shifted. For one thing, ES still refers to the human collective as a herd of bipeds (dipodon agelaikonomiken zoion, 276e11), thereby indicating that he conceives of ...