Tag: comparative zoology

  • Retrospection: Agassiz’s Expeditions in Brazil The Harvard Crimson 2016-04-21 Michelle Y. Raji Louis Rodolphe Agassiz But for Agassiz, the trip to Brazil was about more than science. Not only was evolution—a process not immediately observable to the human eye—deeply antithetical to Agassiz’s staunch empiricism, evolution was profoundly at odds with his perceived world order. Three…