Ever wonder how people figured out there used to be such things as dinosaurs? Curious about how scientists learned to reconstruct fossil skeletons? The knowledge we take for granted today was slow in coming, and along the way, scientists and scholars had some weird ideas. This Web site shows some of their mistakes, provides a timeline of events, gives biographies of a few of the people who have gotten us where we are today, and lists resources you can use to learn more. ... [Information of the supplier]
Bioperspectives 2007 in Cologne hosted the formation of the new umbrella organisation “VBIO - Verband Biologie, Biowissenschaften und Biomedizin in Deutschland“, the German Life Sciences Association. Both major representatives of Bio and Life Sciences in Germany - the “vbbm - Verbund biowissenschaftlicher und biomedizinischer Gesellschaften” (vbbm) and the “Verband Deutscher Biologen und biowissenschaftlicher Fachgesellschaften” (vdbiol) – joined forces. The new VBIO - Verband Biologie, Biowissenschaften und Biomedizin, for the first time comprises about 5.000 individual members, more than 30.000 members of life science organizations and 80 companies and institutions. Thus, VBIO unites under one roof everyone in Germany who is involved in Bio and Life Sciences in schools, universities, industry, administration, research institutions or as a free-lancer. Members of VBIO represent the whole spectrum of Life Sciences from the molecular and the cellular, the organismic to the ecological level as well as biomedicine. ... [Information of the supplier]
