[Taxacom] Vital study of an organism on planet Earth

[John Grehan]

The paper cited here seems to show that the American Museum of Natural
History has managed to revert itself to its time honored tradition of waif
dispersal to explain the world after the heretical deviations into
vicariance in the 1970's and 80's.

John Grehan

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Michael Heads <m.j.heads at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Geoff,
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> I had to laugh when I saw your link. Here's another one:
> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7065/abs/nature04057.html
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> It's quite a common style now, but really annoying. Pierre Jolivet was
> complaining about it a while ago. Editors tell you not to mention the name
> of an organsm in the title - apparently it isn't good for sales. So if you
> don't mention it in the abstract, that makes it even better...
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> Michael Heads
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Geoff Read <gread at actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
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> > Sorry, the title, abstract and even the keywords won't give away what
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> > about. But if you have access and you go to page 2 at the bottom we
> > promise that there will be a taxon name mentioned, and you then can
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> > whether you are further interested.  And living things all really work
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> > same way, don't they, same basic principles, so it's not as if doing that
> > will waste anyone's time.
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> > http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/11-1448.1
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> > We hope this style catches on.
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> > Sincerely,
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