"A Textbook Case Revisited"

Latour's "A Textbook Case Revisited" aims to show that evolution is not a linear, absolute progression that we often assume it to be. The article reminds us that our knowledge of the world is not based on "reality," but by how we interpret, understand and classify information. It can be easy to forget that events occur in the world regardless of people's understanding, or even awareness, of them; it is Man who place significance on these events and strives to understand and compartmentalize the information that comes to him. This is why it is important to not blindly accept science as truth, because science, as Latour and the Museum of Natural History show, changes.