Memories of Cas Jeekel, friend, colleague, and role model
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Memories of Cas Jeekel, friend, colleague, and role model
Nearly everyone has experienced an event that exerted a profound influence on some aspect of their life; often the full impact of that milestone is not fully appreciated until much later through the filter of retrospection. The first such event that established the course of my own scientific career occurred in November of 1946, when, searching for some group of animals to investigate, I attemp...
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عنوان ژورنال: ZooKeys
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1313-2970,1313-2989
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.156.2215