In 7 June 2006 Systematics and Biodiversity Andrew Brower examines application of DNA barcodes to identifying and defining new species. His Perspective piece “Problems with DNA barcodes for species delimitation:…
…revealed these 4 specimens, and a fifth stranded in 1997, to be a new species, designated Perrin’s beaked whale Mesoplodon perrini (Dalebout et al 2002 Marine Mammal Sci 18:577). The…
We post the book chapter by Alan Curry and Jesse H. Ausubel, Biological information for the new blue economy and the emerging role of eDNA, in the comprehensive new book…
…inferences about the evolutionary past. It generally takes years or decades between specimen collection and publication of a new species description, and my impression is that most specimens in museum…
…Plymouth Marine Laboratory, England, report on new primers for amplifying 18S rRNA as a means of barcoding marine nematodes from environmental samples. As background, nematodes are an enormous phylum of…
…from 23% for the 1840 birth cohort to 9%for the 1950 birth cohort. The finding resembles what Jesse and Arnulf found for American males. Technology lifts productivity and lengthens lives,…
Added section on Daedalus – The Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences special issue on “the liberation of the environment.” We also updated our list of publications….
Venerable (1898) publisher H W Wilson periodically compiles major American speeches. Representative Speeches 2008-2009 edited by Brian Boucher balances the Inaugural Address and two other speeches by Barack Obama with…
Jesse Ausubel helped open the excellent 3-hour September 15th 2020 on-line symposium on “US-Russia Scientific Cooperation” organized as part of a series honoring the memory of Victor Rabinowitch, who had a…
PHE researcher Mark Stoeckle is co-author on Jan 2009 J Ornithol paper comparing Scandinavian and North American birds, which found divergent lineages in 19 (24%) of trans-Atlantic species, demonstrating DNA…