Anne Sheepshanks: patron, benefactor, sister

Washington's unsung patron

No visitor to the US capital, Washington DC, can fail to notice the dominance downtown of the Smithsonian Institution. Redstone building after redstone building comprise a series of museums and facilities across the centre of town, which show off American history, natural history and science and attract millions of visitors each year. But what is much less known is that the Smithsonian Institut...

To Anne

Anne O’Tate

Anne Magurran

The overwhelming appeal of the concept of evolution through natural selection has focused the minds of generations of biologists on trends, and the similarities and differences between organisms that is grist to the mill of taxonomists. “To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, ‘Where is the imagination that has been lost in knowledge and where is the knowledge that has been lost in information?’ This book is...

Marie-Anne Félix

Marie-Anne Félix is a Research Director at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France) and a Principal Investigator at the Institut Jacques Monod in Paris. She started her scientific career in cell biology, and later turned to development and evolution. In the last years, her laboratory focused on evolution of vulva development in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and othe...