[Nhcoll-l] Words and things

[Wheeler, Erica J RBCM:EX]

?I've started using the term 'Biodiversity Science' because 1) it easily encompasses anything you want it to and is time-neutral, 2) makes it clear collections based inquiry is indeed SCIENCE, and 3) gives us a bit of breathing room from the Victorian cabinet of curiosities that is evoked by the term natural history.


Erica


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Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Words and things

I would reccomend just a simple natural history. The definition of that phrase is: the scientific study of animals or plants, especially as concerned with observation rather than experiment.

This gives a broad interpretation and the general public typically thinks of both biological and paleontological sciences when looking at natural history in the sciences.

Darrah Steffen

PR Assistant
Sternberg Museum of Natural History
3000 Sternberg Drive
Hays, KS 67601


On Wed, Nov 14, 2018, 8:27 AM Callomon,Paul <prc44 at drexel.edu<mailto:prc44 at drexel.edu> wrote:
Colleagues,

I am hunting around for a word that describes the time-neutral study of life on Earth. "Paleontology" and "Biology" are both time-specific (the former explicitly, the latter by usage) and "integrated biology" is not clear. Is there a word that means "the study of life regardless of time"?

Paul Callomon
Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates
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