Can natural history museums capture the future?

BioScience

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 611-617

  Krishtalka, Leonard ^a,b   Humphrey, Philip S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0033941896     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2000)050[0611:CNHMCT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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