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| | The Rolex Awards: studying ground beetles in Nepal, P. Morvan |
 | | The bugs, collected along the length of the Himalayas, were to open to Morvan the doors of the world’s most prestigious laboratories, such as those of the British Museum, and the museums of Leningrad, Katmandu, Copenhagen, and Milan. |
 | | In 1991, after three years of work, he completed a 90-page manuscript on biogeographical speciation Morvan’s ambition is to provide a global and more logical view of the classification of the Coleoptera Carabidae, by retracing their evolution in relation to their bio-geographical environment. |
 | | For Morvan, the evolution of the Carabidae therefore follows closely the geological and climatic history of the planet. |
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