mark on Nostr: fun fact: Vladimir Nabokov was curator of the butterfly collection at Harvard ...
fun fact: Vladimir Nabokov was curator of the butterfly collection at Harvard University and made significant contributions to the field
"The particular or apparently trivial was, for him, always worth probing. In his entomological studies, he analysed fine, nearly invisible, dots on the wings of New and Old World butterflies to hint at what may have happened on Earth millions of years ago. With no palaeontological data, Nabokov speculated that North and then South America were populated by five waves of butterflies migrating from Asia — a picture confirmed by DNA analysis almost 70 years on"
https://www.nature.com/articles/531304a
"The particular or apparently trivial was, for him, always worth probing. In his entomological studies, he analysed fine, nearly invisible, dots on the wings of New and Old World butterflies to hint at what may have happened on Earth millions of years ago. With no palaeontological data, Nabokov speculated that North and then South America were populated by five waves of butterflies migrating from Asia — a picture confirmed by DNA analysis almost 70 years on"
https://www.nature.com/articles/531304a