Did you know that Aristotle was the first person to document, identify and describe patterns and order in the development of animals in 320BCE? And that Ernst Haeckel was the first person to draw out a phylogeny (evolutionary tree)? von Baer differentiated the three stage basis for embryology, Lamarck identified the first difinitive invertebrate(without spine, creepy crawlies) phylogeny, Libby Hyman published 6 volumes of descriptions of various invertebrates and the final one was on molluscs...
I just had to get that off my chest, I've spent a morning researching all this stuff so I can pontificate on it should I be asked in my viva, and all because I need to reference those names in the introduction...yes just three lines and a heap of references... but I have to know it just in case I'm asked. *sigh*
... and precisely how am I supposed to link the big picture of embryonic development to the more precise one of gastropods in just a sentence?.... and why don't search engines throw up the information you need when you ask?...huh? huh?...
It can be frustrating... sorry... ignore me :D I feel better now.
About Me
- JJ
- When I catch myself unexpectedly in a mirror I'm inclined to startle and think who is that old woman... and the hair doesn't even give me a clue! I fear I have slipped between generations as all my closest friends are all online, and that's a bit scary.
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