[Taxacom] Interview with Croizat

John Grehan calabar.john at gmail.com
Thu May 7 21:08:36 CDT 2015


For all those interested, and some may already be aware that there was a
voice recording made of an interview with Leon Croizat by Jonathan Baskin
in 1974 who presented questions made by David Hull (I think I have that
correct) and sent to prominent systematists of the time. This interview has
not been general available without having a copy of the tapes. A transcript
was published in the Tuatara panbiogeography issue, but this left out so
much of flavor of the conversation.

Now, thanks to Gary Nelson, a digitial copy has been made and through the
kind assistance of Malte Ebach I have provided links to the interview on
the panbiogeography page (http://johngrehan.net/index.php/panbiogeography/).
Just scroll down a little bit on the left and see the links where it says
"Interview with Croizat Part 1 Part 2 Part 3" Hopefully it will work OK.

Most of the interview concerns taxonomy and systematics and Croizat
responded to questions as if the questions were posed to learn from him
rather than just know his answer. Students in particular might find his
outlook intriguing. Happy listening.

John Grehan


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