Quentin Wheeler was President of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Vice President and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in Arizona State University, Keeper and Head of Entomology in the Natural History Museum, London, Director of the Division of Environmental Biology at the National Science Foundation, and Professor of Insect Systematics in Cornell University, U.S.A. He produces a weekly podcast and newsletter, The Species Hall of Fame, and his previous books include The Future of Phylogenetic Systematics (2016), The New Taxonomy (2008), Letters to Linnaeus (2009), What on Earth?-100 of Our Planet's Most Amazing New Species (2013), Species Concepts and Phylogenetic Theory-A Debate (2000), Extinction and Phylogeny (1992) and Fungus-Insect Relationships (1984).
Inhaltsangabe
Part I - Overview 1. A Little about Molecules 2. Scientific Malpractice 3. The Science of Species 4. The Art of Survival 5. Cosmology of the Life Sciences 6. Choices 7. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Taxonomy but Were Afraid to Ask 8. A Science Misunderstood Greatly 9. The Species-Scape 10. The Illusion of Knowledge 11. Morphology without Apology 12. The Inventory Imperative 13. Other than That, Mrs. Lincoln, How Was the Play? Part II - A Crisis of Crises 14. Extinction 15. Systematics under Siege 16. The Nature Gap 17. Options for a Sustainable Future Part III - Solutions 18. Taxonomic Renaissance 19. A Planetary-Scale Species Inventory 20. Hall of the Holocene 21. Shameless Self-Promotion 22. The Evolution of Evolutionary Economics
Part I - Overview 1. A Little about Molecules 2. Scientific Malpractice 3. The Science of Species 4. The Art of Survival 5. Cosmology of the Life Sciences 6. Choices 7. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Taxonomy but Were Afraid to Ask 8. A Science Misunderstood Greatly 9. The Species-Scape 10. The Illusion of Knowledge 11. Morphology without Apology 12. The Inventory Imperative 13. Other than That, Mrs. Lincoln, How Was the Play? Part II - A Crisis of Crises 14. Extinction 15. Systematics under Siege 16. The Nature Gap 17. Options for a Sustainable Future Part III - Solutions 18. Taxonomic Renaissance 19. A Planetary-Scale Species Inventory 20. Hall of the Holocene 21. Shameless Self-Promotion 22. The Evolution of Evolutionary Economics
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