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Seventy-Five Years of Mammalogy (1919-1994) |
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Publishing Information
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Elmer C. Birney and Jerry R. Choate, Editors 1994 .
433 pp. (ISBN 0-935868-73-9) |
Price
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$50.00 (hardback) |
Description
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Twenty-one chapters prepared by 41 contributors review the history of the world's largest and oldest scientific society devoted to the study of mammals (the American Society of Mammalogists), as well as the development of the major subdisciplines of mammalogy. This volume serves not only as an interesting history of the development of an important scientific society, but also as a timely review of major research areas in the field of mammalogy |
Additional Information
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| Table of Contents |
| Part I. |
History of ASM and Its Most Prominent Members |
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Origin......Donald F. Hoffmeister and Keir B.
Sterling
Presidents......James N. Layne and Robert S.
Hoffmann
Awardees......J. Mary Taylor and Duane A.
Schlitter
Other Prominent Members......David M.
Armstrong, Murray L. Johnson, and Randolph
L. Peterson
Academic Propinquity......John O. Whittaker,
Jr.
Publications......B. J. Verts and Elmer C.
Birney
Committees and Annual Meetings......Ayesha E.
Gill and W. Chris Wozencraft
Membership and Finance......Gordon L.
Kirkland and H. Duane Smith
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Intellectual Development of the Science of Mammalogy |
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Taxonomy......Mark D. Engstrom, Jerry R.
Choate, and Hugh H. Genoways
Paleomammalogy......Richard J. Zakrzewski
and Jason A. Lillegraven
Biogeography......Sydney Anderson and Bruce
D. Patterson
Anatomy......Carleton J. Phillips
Physiology......Bruce A. Wunder and Gregory
L. Florant
Reproduction......Oliver P. Pearson and G. J.
Kenagy
Molecular Systematics......Rodney L.
Honeycutt and Terry L. Yates
Cytogenetics......Robert J. Baker and Mark S.
Hafner
Population Ecology......William Z. Lidicker,
Jr.
Community and Ecosystem
Ecology......Michael A. Mares and Guy N.
Cameron
Natural History and Evolutionary
Biology......James H. Brown and Don E. Wilson
Behavior......John F. Eisenberg and Jerry O.
Wolff
Conservation and Management......James H.
Shaw and David J. Schmidly |
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