Myrmecol. News 16: 60; printable
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.25849/myrmecol.news_016:060
- Open Access: CC BY 4.0
- Year: 2012
- Title: Bignell, D.E., Roisin, Y. Lo, N. (Eds.) 2011: Biology of termites: a modern synthesis. – Springer, Dordrecht, XIV + 576 pp.
- Journal: Myrmecological News
- Volume: 16
- Pages: 60
- Type of contribution: Book Review
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- Abstract: Springer, Dordrecht, Xiv + 576 pp; Hardcover, ISBN: 978-90-481-3976-7, Price: € 169.95 Graham J. Thompson, Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London On N6A 5B7, Canada. E-mail: graham.thompson@uwo.ca Myrmecol. News 16: 60 (online 30 September 2011) Issn 1994-4136 (print), Issn 1997-3500 (online) Received 26 August 2011; accepted 27 August 2011 Evolutionary biology lends itself well to synthesis. The underlying unity of life allows separate bits of information to be drawn together like pieces of a puzzle. Famously, the merger of Mendelian genetics with Darwin's concept of natural selection during the first half of the 20th century was such a successful integration of ideas that it is still dubbed The Modern Synthesis a timeless motto that not only reminds us of our academic forefathers, but is appropriately re-deployed whenever significant progress is made from meshing seemingly disparate ideas into a unified thesis. Such is the case with a…
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- Publisher: The Austrian Society of Entomofaunistics
- ISSN: Print: 1994-4136 - Online: 1997-3500