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Dr William A Newman
Professor of Biological Oceanography and Curator of Benthic Invertebrates
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0202 USA
Phone: 858 534 2150 Fax: 858 534 7313 Email: wnewman@ucsd.edu
Street Address: 8750 Biological Grade, 1170 Hubbs Hall, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA
Website: SIO Benthic Invertebrates Collection http://collections.ucsd.edu
The evolution of life has been driven by natural processes involving changing physical as well as biological parameters and interactions. The understanding of evolution is therefore greatly enhanced by a holistic, historical prospective achieved by the study of whole organisms, including their morphology and systematics as well as their ecology and historical biogeography.
Primitive turtle barnacles, Chelonibia testudinaria
on the plastron of a
green turtle from Kaneohe Bay, Oahu
Photo: J Balazs
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