...Michael C. Calver; Kate A. Bryant ABSTRACT Despite overwhelming evidence for the common ancestry of life and evolution by natural selection, ideas invoking direct creation persist, disrupting teaching evolution as a central biological concept. While originating within fundamentalist Protestantism...

.... As well as his research, he lectured in the School of Veterinary Science, becoming an Associate Professor. During this time he became very invoked in over- seas aid work, and spent most of the University holidays abroad - chiefly in Indonesia - working on the Australian Overseas Aid Programme. Though...

... and the preceding one. He invoked contemporaneous ecological concepts such as the balance in nature and the ecological balance and he showed how reptiles played a significant role in maintaining this balance. He argued that reptiles should be protected because of their role in keeping economic pests, enemies...

... to the High Court of Australia (Davern v Messel 1984) was necessary to overturn a decision of the Northern Territory Supreme Court interpreting Section 26(2) of the Territory Pmks and Wildlife Conservation Act NT as meaning that "birds were not 'animals' ". An Act which is frequently invoked to protect...

... and practical examples of conservation with an extended discussion of the sorts of language that conservation practices invoke. At the Zoology on the Table forum, I began with an image when thinking about the uses of metaphor. The composite image (figure 2) comprised an image of kangaroos from the controversial...

... was never finished. have to invoke Mike s deity to get the signature of the dead on it in the circumstances. PAUL WILLIS: So I m keen to follow this one through with the audience. Has anyone else had experience with But I think there are some very real problems. These days, this phenomenon of stranded data...

... extinction record from last century as a central rationale for their research or actions. More recently, the presumed loss of the Christmas Island pipstrelle Pipistrellus murrayi, invoked sharp rebuke from Flannery (2012) to Australia in allowing a contemporary extinction to happen under our watch. What...

... invoke opposition and possibly rejection because of sentimental or commercial considerations. In such an instance, the well-known native shrub formerly in genus Dryandra was synonymised under Banksia by Mast and Thiele (2007), drawing an outcry among some botanists, horticulturalists and nursery owners...

... in the natural and social sciences, to policy makers and to the broader public. Congratulations to the authors and to CSIRO Publishing! Chris R. Dickman, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney. For many people, the word dingo invokes mixed feelings. For so many years in Australia, dingoes were...

... be reasonable to assume that the sex ratio would be closer to parity than was observed in the Katherine Crocodile Management Area Nichols and Letnic (2008) invoked a male dispersal hypothesis to explain the strong male bias (approximately 70 % male) and size-structure (mean TL= 2.15 m) of C. porosus captured...

..., currently being tested as a biological control on Wardang Island, has successfully spread between warrens in the pens. Beauty. It has also spread beyond the quarantine area to two other nearby locations. This necessitated invoking contingency plans required under quarantine regulations. This appears...

... the restoration of invertebrate populations. By contrast, Bush Rats ate a wider range of food groups post-fire, including ferns and grasses that were otherwise seldom consumed, returning to their usual diet within 12 16 months. Dietary flexibility was proposed as a potentially important but seldom invoked...

..., the proposal has raised some concerns, particularly as IUCN guidelines suggest extreme caution in introducing species to any area outside their natural range (IUCN 1987). Translocating Tasmanian devils to offshore islands invokes the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (1999...

.... Disease was invoked by a long~time resident to explain the loss of burrowing bettongs and brush~tailed possums from the Nullarbor in the 1880s and 1890s (Richards and Short 1996) and the sudden demise of quokkas Setonix brachyurus in the 1920s and 1930s (White 1952; How et al. 1987). However, Short et al...

... the concerns expressed about the US legislation by Carruthers and Paton (2005) remain an issue with the NSW legislation. Gibbons and Lindenmayer (2007) pointed out that when offset schemes fail to require sites to be improved commensurate with loss invoked by a development, that are switched with sites...

... of flying-foxes is promoting empathy for flying-foxes. This approach is typically employed following high-profile cases of mass mortalities such as from landscape-wide food shortages (Heathcote 2019) and extreme heat events (Mo et al. 2022b). This approach aims to invoke a feeling of compassion amongst...

..., the stranding of a whale was a welcome event and an occasion for local Aboriginal people to eat to repletion. Nowadays such events are viewed with solemnity and invoke great concern for the welfare of the distressed animal. Strandings of Bryde's Whales are relatively uncommon, but the occurrence of this species...