Posted via web from David Dobbs’s Somatic Marker
The Maldives, featured in a Wired gallery of islands shot from space. A place crucial to the story I told in Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral. It was in this unique archipelago that Alexander Agassiz found the evidence he felt proved beyond doubt that Darwin’s theory of coral reef formation was wrong, dead wrong. It’s also a singularly beautiful place, and particularly threatened by global warming.