BEYOND MID-LATITUDE BIOLOGY.

The article evaluates the issues involving contemporary biological thinking and education. The origin of the essentially temperate zone oriented approach to biology might readily be explained in terms of the history of science in general and the history of biology in particular. Systematic attempts to expose undergraduate and graduate students of biology to the richness and diversity of tropical life have hardly begun. Widespread and intensive training of young biologists in the tropics seems beset with numerous severe difficulties.