The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds (Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law)

by Thom van Dooren

In this context, the fundamental structure of life is one of inheritance. Darwin knew something like this when he drew a comparison between language and biological species, with an emphasis on the way in which both are at their core genealogical: seemingly “individual” languages and “individual” species are in reality simply moments within longer historical lineages (Grosz 2004).