Lottia digitalis Point on the California coast, "L. digitalis" coexists with the similar species, "Lottia scabra", but each occupies a slightly different habitat. "L. digitalis" tends to occupy vertical rock faces or overhangs and certain horizontal ones clothed by algae and barnacles. "L. digitalis" clump together more often, prefer wave-exposed areas, occupy sites further up the shore and are seldom found in rock pools. Both species move about freely when the tide is up but "L. digitalis" settles in a different location at each low tide whereas "L. scabra" tends to home to the same spot. "L. scabra" has a more rugged
Where Mathematics Comes From Where Mathematics Comes From Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being (hereinafter "WMCF") is a book by George Lakoff, a cognitive linguist, and Rafael E. Núñez, a psychologist. Published in 2000, "WMCF" seeks to found a cognitive science of mathematics, a theory of embodied mathematics based on conceptual metaphor. Mathematics makes up that part of the human conceptual system that is special in the following way: Nikolay Lobachevsky said "There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world." A common type of conceptual