Bruce Heming

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Bruce Sword Heming (born December 1, 1939 in Ithaca, NY - † July 22, 2018 in Edmonton ) was a Canadian entomologist and evolutionary biologist of American descent.

Life

Heming was born in Ithaca, New York, and grew up in Whittier (California) and Guelph (province of Ontario ) on. He studied at the University of Guelph and North Carolina State University at Raleigh, where he received his PhD in 1970 . In 1974 he met his future wife and colleague Karin van Battum (1946-2011) in the Netherlands during a research semester with René Hubert Cobben (1925–1987) at the University of Wageningen . They married in November 1976 and settled in McKernan, southwest Edmonton, Alberta . Karin and Bruce Heming had two sons: Arthur and Steven.

Heming worked in the Department of Entomology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton until his retirement . His fields of work were evolutionary biology, palaeontology and the phylogenesis of insects, with particular interest in the group of paraneoptera , which includes the beaked bug (Hemiptera), dust lice ( Psocoptera), animal lice (Phthiraptera) and fringed winged winged (Thysanoptera). Heming is known, among other things, for his work on the phylogeny and functional morphology of fringed winged birds.

Books (selection)

  • BS Heming: Insect Development and Evolution. Comstock Books. Cornell University Press 2003. ISBN 978-0801439339

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  1. ↑ a b c d Obituary (accessed August 9, 2018)
  2. ↑ BS Heming (1970): Postembryonic development of the female reproductive system in Frankliniella fusca (Thripidae) and Haplothrips verbasci (Phlaeothripidae) (Thysanoptera). Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America 7 (2): 198-234. (Parts of Ph. D. dissertation)
  3. ↑ KE Heming-van Battum, BS Heming (1986): Structure, function and evolution of the reproductive system in females of Hebrus pusillus and H. ruficeps (Hemiptera, Gerromorpha, Hebridae ). Journal of Morphology 190 (2): 121-167. doi : 10.1002 / jmor.1051900202
  4. ↑ Karin Elisabeth Heming-van Battum (with picture; accessed on August 9, 2018)
  5. ↑ Bruce Heming Department of Biological Sciences of University of Alberta (with picture; accessed August 9, 2018)
  6. ↑ LA Mound, BS Heming, JM Palmer (1980): Phylogenetic relationships between the families of recent Thysanoptera (Insecta). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2): 111-141. doi : 10.1111 / j.1096-3642.1980.tb01934.x
  7. ↑ BS Heming (1971): Functional morphology of the thysanopteran pretarsus. Canadian Journal of Zoology 49 (1): 91-108. doi : 10.1139 / z71-014

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personal data
SURNAME Heming, Bruce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heming, Bruce Sword (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian entomologist and evolutionary biologist of American descent
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Ithaca, NY
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 2018
Place of death Edmonton