Origins: From Jungle to Lab.  The Story of Life's Complexity
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Jon Martin and Andrew Polaszek

Jon Martin and Andrew Polaszek

"We're doing what naturalists did 100 years ago—going out into the field to see what's there."
—Jon Martin


Jon Martin's wasps "The fact that we can avoid the use of environmentally-damaging pesticides and insecticides by the judicious and careful use of host-specific parasitoid wasps is definitely something that makes them particularly worthy of attention."
—Andrew Polaszek

Jon Martin discusses the need for taking specimens.

What about "destructive sampling"? Jon Martin discusses the need for taking specimens.
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study of wasps in the lab Jon Martin's desk sample specimens Microscope
 
   

Origins: Exploratorium: From Jungle to Lab


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