Bill asks: > To put it another way, if Lindemann had survived, could he get a job in > today's market?
Rick Grosberg (UC Davis) asked a very similar question during his American Society of Naturalists presidential address in 2004 at the Evolution meetings. The title of his talk was: "Natural History for the 21st Century: Would Darwin Make the Short List?" The talk was recorded as an audio slideshow and is available in QCShow (Windows-only) format at: http://aics-research.com/lectures/evolution/grosberg-04ev/grosberg-04ev.qcshow You may have to download a player to view the lecture. The player is available from: http://aics-research.com/qcshow/playerhome.html Rick gave a funny and interesting talk. The first 20% of the talk (slides 1-15) is devoted to precisely the questions that have come up in this discussion, asking whether or not Darwin could have ever been hired by today's standards, while the last 33% (slides 64-88) is a natural history quiz that Rick put together, musically accompanied by David Hillis (UT Austin) and his lab band, PhyloZydeco. Dan Simberloff gave the introduction. Wirt Atmar
