Anne Penders, l’envers

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...

Anne McLaren 1927–2007

This had been a celebratory year for Anne McLaren. In April, her 80th birthday was marked in Cambridge, UK by a special symposium in her honor on germ cells and stem cells, two subjects very close to her heart and the main themes of her research endeavors throughout her career. Many of her colleagues and friends from all over the world gathered to participate in lively scientific sessions, grea...