All animals are interesting!

Abstract

My notes: Study of organism: two approach. 1) Principle apparoach, ask How (a phenomenon occur). Question then often become reductionistic, followed by How (the process that leads to the phenomenon). Common feature: identify and choose suitable organisms or subject in the investigation to answer the questions--eg: sucess stories in biology of Anolis, Plysia, Drosophila and Mus, each represent a succesful selection of a particular group of organisms as best approach to answer the questions. 2) Natual History approach: Look at organisms at an environment, by simple or amplified observation, asks what organisms occur where and how they interact with each other and with environment, what might be their specialisation---represents the expression of general but professionaly organized curiosity about the workings of natural history.