Abstract Jean Baptiste de Lamarck and Thomas Huxley, two of the foremost thinkers of the
18th and 19th centuries, believed that humanity could not cause the extinction of marine …

▪ Abstract Neither geologists nor biologists have a definition that is capable of classifying
Madagascar unambiguously as an island or a continent; nor can they incorporate Malagasy …

The discovery of a living coelacanth specimen in 1938 was remarkable, as this lineage of
lobe-finned fish was thought to have become extinct 70 million years ago. The modern …

The Ecology of Sulawesi is a comprehensive ecological survey of one of Indonesia's least
populated and most diverse islands. It is hoped that it will prove useful to resource …

Professor Jenny Clack in the University of Cambridge Museum of Zoology, 2012.
Photograph Maja Daniels. fossil-hunting expeditions there in 1987, along with her husband …

The ranges of many tropical marine species overlap in a centre of maximum marine
biodiversity, which is located in the Indo-Malayan region. Because this centre includes …

The faking and forgery of works of art and antiquities is probably now more extensive than
ever before. The frauds are aided by new technologies, from ink jet printers to epoxy resins …

The Linnaean classification system provides the universal reference system for
communicating about the diversity of life and its hierarchic history. Several limitations that …

Vertebrate organisms have evolved sophisticated immunological mechanisms for the
recognition of self versus nonself. The immune system is functionally characterized by …

Many examples of cryptic marine species have been demonstrated with biochemical and
molecular studies. In most cases, a broadly distributed taxon is actually a group of sibling …