bionomy
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Origin of bionomy
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Like the science from which it is increasingly divorced, bionomy is a human endeavour in its own right.
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Arguing that biology builds on bionomy and thus owes it support is moot if science's driving force is advance and not consolidation.
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Just as we feel an instant sense of our insignificance when we stare into the cosmos, or experience the exhilaration of the expanding landscape as we ascend a mountain, bionomy stretches our horizon.
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Like so many species, Madagascar's spectacular dragonflies have been ignored since the European monographs produced in bionomy's heyday in the 1950s.
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