So all of us should really push hard for invertebrate zoology courses being at
least two semesters in length, rather than the typical one semester, in order
to do justice to all facets of the majority of diversity of life on this
planet (of which most consists of beetles). My ichthyology course was two
semesters and nobody griped about that.
Kirk
At 12:14 AM 4/3/04 +0100, Kenneth M. Halanych wrote:
I completely agree with Ken about this. Part of the problem is the texts
for invertebrate biology. Brusca and Brusca and Ruppert, Fox and
Barnes have recently released new additions. Both fail to adequately
incorporate much of the recent molecular phylogenetic data or the realm
of evo-devo and are not really integrative. There is a lot of value to the
straight function morphology approach and many of use find it
fascinating, but it is not capturing the students that it use to.
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refer, then your explanation is better than mine."
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Research & Collections Branch
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History
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