Cleaning St. Anne

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...

Burial Records for the Parish of St. Anne Soho, London, in 1814-1828

Of the deaths recorded in the St. Anne Soho funeral day books from 1814 through 1828, nearly half were for children under 5 yr of age. Relatively few persons died from age 5 to age 15, but then the proportion of deaths rose steadily to a peak in the 40-49-year group. Decline, convulsions, and inflammation account for about half of all deaths, the causes of which were often vague and inexact.

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...