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[Curtis Clark]

At 10:14 AM 2/28/99 -0500, Mark Garland wrote:
>An observation:  In the 1980's, the biology department at Florida State U.
>eliminated the foreign-language requirement for graduate students.  Short-
>sighted?  Maybe.  But the fact is that in most fields of biology, you can
>keep
>up with the literature very nicely by reading papers in English.

Systematics is not one of those fields. To a molecular biologist, a paper
from 15 years ago is old, but in western North America we routinely look at
papers 100 years old, and other areas have an even longer tradition of
systematics.


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