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Introduction: The Bauplan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2012

Joseph Henry Vogel
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University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras
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E. O. Wilson emphasizes the importance of classification in a number of his writings. “The first step to wisdom, as the Chinese say, is getting things by their right names.” Such wisdom is not confined to Harvard entomologists and leaf-cutting ants. It can also be applied to civil society and education. In 1956, Benjamin Bloom conceptualized education as divisible into three domains: the cognitive, the affective, and the psychomotor. Each domain could be further broken down. The cognitive was a hierarchy of six distinct classes or levels. At the bottom is “knowledge,” associated with “remembering, either by recognition or recall, of ideas, material or phenomena” (62); at the top, “evaluation,” “the making of judgments about the value, for some purpose, of ideas, works, solutions, methods, material, etc” (185). From bottom to top, the mental levels are more challenging and the hierarchy can be conceived as a pyramid (Fig. I.1.). The seven contributors to this volume share the conviction that a “Museum of Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property, and the Public Domain” will enable the public to scale the cognitive pyramid while also delving into the domains of the affective and the psychomotor. Given the ignorance and misconceptions about bioprospecting, intellectual property, and the public domain, the ascent for most museum visitors will begin at the very bottom, viz., knowledge.

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Print publication year: 2010

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  • Introduction: The Bauplan
  • Edited by Joseph Vogel
  • Book: The Museum of Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property, and the Public Domain
  • Online publication: 05 March 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.7135/UPO9780857289605.002
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  • Introduction: The Bauplan
  • Edited by Joseph Vogel
  • Book: The Museum of Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property, and the Public Domain
  • Online publication: 05 March 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.7135/UPO9780857289605.002
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  • Introduction: The Bauplan
  • Edited by Joseph Vogel
  • Book: The Museum of Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property, and the Public Domain
  • Online publication: 05 March 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.7135/UPO9780857289605.002
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