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Ecology: Winged insights

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Nature

Publication Date
2016-11-24

Combining a personal memoir with serious discussion of a scientific subject is a difficult literary trick. The Finnish biologist Ilkka Hanski succeeded with aplomb in his last book, Messages from Islands, in which each chapter begins with insights from an island that moulded his thinking about ecology, evolution and conservation. Hanski, one of the foremost ecologists of his generation, died in May

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http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v539/n7630/full/539493a.html