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This book presents an engaging and accessible examination of the role of systematic biology in species exploration and biodiversity conservation.
This book presents an engaging and accessible examination of the role of systematic biology in species exploration and biodiversity conservation.
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).
Part I - Overview
- A Little about Molecules
- Scientific Malpractice
- The Science of Species
- The Art of Survival
- Cosmology of the Life Sciences
- Choices
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Taxonomy but Were Afraid to Ask
- A Science Misunderstood Greatly
- The Species-Scape
- The Illusion of Knowledge
- Morphology without Apology
- The Inventory Imperative
- Other than That, Mrs. Lincoln, How Was the Play?
- Extinction
- Systematics under Siege
- The Nature Gap
- Options for a Sustainable Future
- Taxonomic Renaissance
- A Planetary-Scale Species Inventory
- Hall of the Holocene
- Shameless Self-Promotion
- The Evolution of Evolutionary Economics
Part II - A Crisis of Crises
Part III - Solutions
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
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Fachbereich: | Botanik |
Genre: | Biologie |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Seiten: | 246 |
Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
ISBN-13: | 9781032480527 |
ISBN-10: | 1032480521 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Wheeler, Quentin |
Hersteller: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Maße: | 229 x 151 x 20 mm |
Von/Mit: | Quentin Wheeler |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 06.07.2023 |
Gewicht: | 0,42 kg |
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).
Part I - Overview
- A Little about Molecules
- Scientific Malpractice
- The Science of Species
- The Art of Survival
- Cosmology of the Life Sciences
- Choices
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Taxonomy but Were Afraid to Ask
- A Science Misunderstood Greatly
- The Species-Scape
- The Illusion of Knowledge
- Morphology without Apology
- The Inventory Imperative
- Other than That, Mrs. Lincoln, How Was the Play?
- Extinction
- Systematics under Siege
- The Nature Gap
- Options for a Sustainable Future
- Taxonomic Renaissance
- A Planetary-Scale Species Inventory
- Hall of the Holocene
- Shameless Self-Promotion
- The Evolution of Evolutionary Economics
Part II - A Crisis of Crises
Part III - Solutions
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
---|---|
Fachbereich: | Botanik |
Genre: | Biologie |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Seiten: | 246 |
Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
ISBN-13: | 9781032480527 |
ISBN-10: | 1032480521 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Wheeler, Quentin |
Hersteller: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Maße: | 229 x 151 x 20 mm |
Von/Mit: | Quentin Wheeler |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 06.07.2023 |
Gewicht: | 0,42 kg |