It is a rare occurrence when the vague ideas that might circulate in the back of your mind as a kind of wave of unconscious ticks are suddenly made to coalesce, not by some particularly brilliant insight of your own, but by someone else’s lucid and provocative statement. Purely through a combination of boredom and [...]

“The notion of the common plan persists today in the term Bauplan, from the German meaning ground plan or an architects sketch or plan (Bau, design, type of construction, structure, form; plan, plan, design, intention), which was introduced into morphology in 1945 by Joseph Henry Woodger (1894-1981). Although more or less assimilated into biology, the [...]