COLLECTING COINS AND MEDALS IN 18TH-CENTURY SWEDEN

Collecting Coins and Medals in 18th-Century Sweden

During the 18th century, collections of coins and medals were familiar sights.The collectors ranged from scholars to amateurs, hot pink softball glove men and women and the collectables tempted collectors for various reasons: they signified wealth and knowledge, they rendered historical events or current politics in material form, or they were mini

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Fish, mirrors, and a gradualist perspective on self-awareness.

The mirror mark test has encouraged a binary view of self-awareness according to which snow babe miniature peach a few species possess this capacity whereas others do not.Given how evolution works, however, we need a more gradualist model of the various ways in which animals construe a self and respond to mirrors.The recent study on cleaner wrasses

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