Linnean Learning

In his new book, Jack Ashby FLS journeys through both the evolutionary history of animals, and the ways people interpret them in museums. Animals in museums are not only representatives of their entire species, but they also tell us something about the time in which they were collected. They provide windows into the past as well as data for the present. Museums are one of the key windows we have into the natural world, but they are human inventions. In this podcast join Jack Ashby as he selects three specimens from our collections that explain mimicry, cheats and warning colours. Author and zoologist Jack Ashby FLS is the Manager of the Grant Museum of Zoology at University College London. Speaker: Jack Ashby FLS Producer: Ross Ziegelmeier