Biodiversity in word and meaning
Issue 336 | Page 27 | Published Mar 2010
Description
This article argues that we need to abandon the word 'biodiversity', to rediscover the biology that it obscures and to rethink how to introduce this biology to young people. We cannot go back to the systematics that once made up a large part of a biology A-level course (ages 16-18), so we need to find alternative ways of introducing the variety of life and whole-organism biology, and we need to embed it in an ecological and evolutionary context.
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