Woods Institute - Science Art

This portal page leads to a website dedicated to the book:
Humans, Nature, and Birds: Science Art from Cave Walls to Computer Screens
By Darryl Wheye and Donald Kennedy

Detail of a plate in the book (from 'Room 2' on Science Art website)

Identifying pelicans from ancient Egypt as a possible domesticated species
Pelicans from a Wall Painting in the Tomb of Horemheb (detail), Thebes, Egypt, early 1400s bce. Photo: George Hughes. Courtesy of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Detail of a plate in the book (from 'Room 10' on Science Art website)

Showing an attack by a Northern Goshawk on a Black Grouse lek
Attack, Out of the Mist, © Vadim Gorbatov. Science Art—Birds.

Detail of a plate in the book (from 'Room 7' on Science Art website)

Reflecting on automobiles and avian habitat
The Champion © Patricia Pèpin. Science Art—Birds.

Clicking on any work of art will take you to the book's main landing page.

Published by Yale University Press in 2008 with support from the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Public Understanding of Science and Technology Program.

The book draws from the 30,000-year sweep of art about nature--using birds as a binding motif--and invites readers to view the images through a science lens. Science Art book website.

About the Authors
Donald Kennedy, Woods Institute Senior Fellow, President emeritus of Stanford University, Editor-in-Chief, Science. (2000 - 2008).

Darryl Wheye, author and artist specializing in birds and Science Art.

About Science Art
The book calls attention to a resource that advances public understanding of relationships in the natural world, supporting the Woods Institute mission to educate and inspire environmental leaders.

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