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Guests on the British program have included at least one Harvard faculty member—Agassiz Professor of Zoology James Hanken, who attempted to explain the theory of Darwinian evolution to Ali G several years...
...worldwide biodiversity crisis, with species disappearing, natural history museums represent historical records of distribution and abundance,” Hanken says. “We’re getting calls for information from countries all over the world...
...We’re doing as much as we can to make information about our holdings available on the Internet. You could search for information about all 300,000 of our herpetology specimens,” Hanken says. “People all over the world have ready access to our information...
...continues to send out regular collecting expeditions. Hanken himself still goes collecting in Mexico’s cloud forests...
...regarded as a world resource,” Hanken says. “It is on par with the finest natural history collections anywhere in the world: the British Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian, the American Museum of Natural History. We are right up there with them. Far and away, it is the most important and largest university research collection anywhere...