[Taxacom] Norman I. Platnick (1951-2020)

[John Grehan]

Thank you for posting this information. Very sad news as always to hear the
passing of a colleague. While I found myself at polar opposites with Norman
on biogeography he was (along with Gary Nelson) a pioneer in the
exploration of improvements to biogeographic method. But my views did
not mesh with Norman (with whom I had the interesting experience of meeting
at one time) who had little tolerance for panbiogeography. But then it is
probably true that I had just as little tolerance for his approach so I
guess we were a bit alike in that respect. Such is life. He remains part of
a my personal historical memory for biogeography.

John Grehan

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 11:42 AM Dilrukshan Wijesinghe via Taxacom <
taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:

> Most subscribers of Taxacom will be familiar with the name of Norman I.
> Platnick of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, the expert on
> spider taxonomy and systematics and a major contributor to phylogenetic and
> biogeographic theory. Norm passed away recently as a result of injuries
> from a fall in his home. Please see the following:
>
> www.amnh.org/content/download/310553/4896671/file/NormanPlatnick1951-2020IZwebsite.pdf
>
> Norm's Facebook page has more:www.facebook.com/norman.platnick
>
> A book on spiders by Norm is due to be published by Princeton University
> Press:
> press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691188850/spiders-of-the-world
>
>
> Priyantha
>
>
> D. P. Wijesinghe
> dpwijesinghe at yahoo.com
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