John Zerzan (born 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. His works criticise (agricultural) civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocate drawing upon the ways of life of prehistoric humans as an inspiration for what a free society should look like. Some of his criticism has extended as far as challenging domestication, language, symbolic thought (such as mathematics and art) and the concept of time.

Paul Howe Shepard, Jr. (b. 1926, d. 1996) is an American environmentalist and and author best known for introducing the pleistocene paradigm to deep ecology. His works have tried to establish a normative framework in terms of evolutionary theory and developmental psychology. He offers a critique of (agricultural) civilization and advocates modelling human lifestyles on those of prehistoric humans. He explores the connections between domestication, language, and cognition.

Juliet Clutton-Brock was a senior research worker in the Mammal Section at The Natural History Museum in London from 1969 until her retirement in 1993, and maintains a position there as a research associate. She has acted as editor of the Journal of Zoology since 1994 and has published more than 90 scientific reports, papers, books and popular articles on archaeozoology and the history of domesticated mammals.

Jack Black was rat-catcher and mole destroyer by appointment to Her Majesty Queen Victoria during the middle of the Nineteenth Century. Black cut a striking figure in his self-made "uniform" of scarlet topcoat, waistcoat, and breeches, with a huge leather belt inset with cast-iron rats. Black was, among other things, an accomplished dog breeder. He is quoted in Henry Mayhew's "London Labour and the London Poor", Vol.

Barbara Ana Schaal (born 1947 in Berlin, Germany, naturalized in 1956) American scientist, evolutionary biologist, is a professor at Washington University and vice president of the National Academy of Sciences. She is the first woman to be elected vice president of the Academy. Schaal grew up in Chicago, graduated from the University of Illinois, Chicago with a degree in biology, and received a doctorate from Yale University in 1974.

Richard Stockton ("Scotty") MacNeish was an American archaeologist and Mesoamericanist scholar, who conducted pioneering research into the origins of agriculture, plant domestication and the rise of sedentary cultures in the pre-Columbian Americas. Later in his career he conducted similar research on the origins of agriculture in East Asia.

Keiko (1976 - December 12, 2003) was an orca (or killer whale) who stared in the first of three Free Willy movies. Life size animated models were used in all three movies, Keiko never appeared on camera for the final two installments.

Luis de Bolaños was a Spanish Franciscan friar and missionary evangelist, initiator of the system of reductions (indigenous towns) in Paraguay and northeastern Argentina. Bolaños was born in Marchena, Seville, and entered the Franciscan order while he was very young, studying until he became a deacon. Friar Alonso de San Buenaventura passed by his convent looking for missionaries to work in South America, and Bolaños joined his group.

In the future we carry one syringe full of Brainpower and one full of Feeling; That way we can live in Oblivion, and choose when to really be Alive. --ME--.

I live in Jackson Township with my boyfriend of 1 years in a tiny 1 bedroom apartment. We're planning to get married late 2006, so stay tuned for other details on that :)

I am a beautiful Maine Coon with the silkiest fur you'll ever find and six toes. I may not be too smart, but I'm very pretty and well groomed.

I hate corporate America but I always end up drunk at McDonalds. I spend lots of money on skin care, but I only ever drink Diet coke instead of water. I can never figure out if I love Britney Spears or hate her. Just because I don't have an ipod I think I'm some sort of modern day Che Guevara. I love animals more than anything but no matter how I try I can't stop eating them.

dreaming of rockin the suburbs as a domestic muse ...about as hip as your mom.

i like taking pictures, riding my bike and baking cupcakes.

cohesive jam.

I smell cheese...

Over all i am a normal generally healthly young male. The only unusual thing, perhaps, is that i have extremely large glands in my throat. Devout.

Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a French zoologist and an authority on deviation from normal structure. He coined the term ethology. He was born in Paris, the son of Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. In his earlier years he showed an aptitude for mathematics, but eventually he devoted himself to the study of natural history and of medicine, and in 1824 he was appointed assistant naturalist to his father. In 1832-1837 he published his great teratological work, …

Sir John (Jack) Goody (born 1919) is a British social anthropologist. He has been a prominent teacher at Cambridge University, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1976, and he's an associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. Among his main publications are "Death, property and the ancestors" (1962), "The myth of the Bagre" (1972) and "The domestication of the savage mind" (1977).

i teach middle school Science to ESL students. ESL is "English as a Second Language" and my kids are immigrants, most speaking spanish, but also from asia and the middle east. my sense of humor sustains me through the day.

Devon --.

orange makes me happy.