DEST - Taxonomy Training

Course programme 2011-2012

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Teaching and training in taxonomy in universities and institutions is provided by a diverse set of approaches, for example, by offering courses in pure and applied taxonomy at various levels, for various durations and with or without formal qualification. There are, however, few dedicated training courses that provide future professionals with a solid basic understanding on which to develop taxonomic expertise.

The training curriculum will target topics such as: nomenclature; identification tools and methods; describing species; phylogeny and evolutionary biology; data analysis and management; collection conservation; and relevance of taxonomy to other disciplines and to society in general.

The ‘Modern Taxonomy’ course programme is being developed in a modular manner so that courses can be offered at several institutions. In this way the courses will give the best quality that partners can offer from their available staff, experiences and equipment. Each partner institution will contribute a different number of subjects depending on the match between the curriculum topics and the existing expertise of the institution. The trainee will attend the course subjects in two ways: face-to-face at the institutions and where appropriate by means of e-learning.

The first evolutionary tree, Lamarck, 1809

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