[Taxacom] Interview with Croizat

[Michael A. Ivie]

John,

Fascinating, thank you for posting this.  It greatly fills out his image 
for me.  From his writing, I would never have thought his spoken English 
was so good.  Also interesting is that his looping obfuscatory rambling 
style is not limited to his writing.

M

On 5/7/2015 8:08 PM, John Grehan wrote:
> 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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