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Jones's Icones contains finely delineated paintings of more than
760 species of Lepidoptera, many of which it described for the
first time, marking a critical moment in the study of natural
history. With Iconotypes Jones's seminal work is published for the
first time, accompanied by expert commentary and contextual essays,
and featuring annotated maps showing the location of each species.
Jones painted the species between the early 1780s and 1800, drawing
from his own collection and the collections of Joseph Banks, Dru
Drury, Sir James Edward Smith, John Francillon, the British Museum
and the Linnean Society. For every specimen painting he provided a
species name, the collection from which it was taken and the
geographical location in which it was found. In 1787, during a
visit to London, the Danish scientist Johann Christian Fabricius
studied Jones's paintings and based 231 species of butterfly and
moths on them. In this enhanced facsimile, Jones's references to
historic references are clarified and modern taxonomic names are
provided, together with notes on which paintings serve as
iconotypes. Contextual commentary by specialist entomologist
Richard I. Vane-Wright gives an account of Jones's life and his
motivation for collecting butterflies and creating the Icones, and
evaluates the significance of his work. Interspersed at intervals
between the pages of Jones's paintings are modern maps showing the
location of each species painted, and expert essays on the
development of lepidoptery and taxonomy after Linneaus, and the
roles of collectors and natural history artists from the late 1700s
to mid-1800s. With 1600 illustrations in colour In partnership with
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
The relationship between systematics and ecology has recently been
invigorated, and developed a long way from the "old" field of
comparative biology. This change has been two-fold. Advances in
phylogenetic research have allowed explicit phylogenetic hypotheses
to be constructed for a range of different groups of organisms, and
ecologists are now more aware that organism traits are influenced
by the interaction of past and present. This volume discusses the
impact of these modern phylogenetic methods on ecology, especially
those using comparative methods.
Although unification of these areas has proved difficult, a number
of conclusions can be drawn from the text. These include the need
for a "working" bridge between evolutionary biologists using
logic-based cladistic methods and those using probability-based
statistical methods, for care in the selection of tree types for
comparative studies and for systematists to attempt to analyse
ecologically important groups.
Comparative ecologists and systematists need to come together to
develop these ideas further, but this volume presents a very useful
starting point for all those interested in systematics and ecology.
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