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George C. McGavinFLSFRGSHon. FSBHon. FRES^[1] is a British entomologist, author, academic, television presenter and explorer.^[2][3][4][5]

Background[edit]

McGavin attended Daniel Stewart's College, a private school in Edinburgh,^[6] then studied Zoology at the University of Edinburgh from 1971 to 1975, followed by a PhD in entomology at Imperial College, London.^[5] He went on to teach and research at the University of Oxford.^[7] He is Honorary Research Associate at Oxford University Museum of Natural History^[2][3] and the Department of Zoology of Oxford University, where he lists his interests as 'Terrestrial arthropods especially in tropical forests, caves and savannah. Public understanding of science. Exploration.'^[8] He is also a visiting professor of entomology at the University of Derby.^[5]

McGavin is a Fellow of the Linnean Society and of the Royal Geographical Society, and has several insect species named in his honour.^[2][9][10] He was previously Assistant Curator of Entomology at Oxford University's Museum of Natural History.^[11][12]

McGavin has lectured at the Cheltenham Science Festival,^[12] given the Royal Geographical Society children's Christmas lecture and contributes to their Schools Programme. He won Earthwatch's 'Irreplaceable – The World's Most Invaluable Species' debate, broadcast on BBC Radio 4, in 2008^[13] and he is a lecturer on board Cunard ships.^[14] In 2017 he gave the Royal Entomological Society's Verrall Lecture speaking on 'Tales from television: an entomologist's perspective'^[15]

He is a patron of the charity Wildscreen,^[16] of the Bees, Wasp and Ants Recording Scheme and of the Alderney Records Centre;^[17] and is a Global Ambassador for Earthwatch and given the prize-giving speech at Stewart's Melville College

He enjoys eating insects, which he describes as 'flying prawns'.^[9]

Television[edit]

McGavin was a presenter for the BBC and Discovery Channel US series Expedition Borneo (2007), and was co-presenter of the BBC series Expedition, for which he has conducted three expeditions: Lost Land of the Jaguar (2008), Lost Land of the Volcano (2009), and Lost Land of the Tiger, in Bhutan (2010).^[4][11][18] He is also a regular contributor to The One Show (BBC1) and has appeared on the Richard & Judy show to cook and eat insects.^[19]

He was Series Consultant and a contributor on Infested (Granada/ITV, 2002)^[19] and was the Chief Scientific Consultant for the David Attenborough series Life in the Undergrowth.^[4]

His other TV appearances include What's up Doc? (STV), Tomorrow's World (BBC), Package Holiday Undercover (ITV), Facing the Music (BBC), Take One Museum (Channel 4) and various national and local news programmes.

His programme Afterlife: The Science of Decay was screened by the BBC on 6 December 2011.^[20][21]

From July 2011, another BBC programme, The Dark, about the nocturnal activities of animals, was produced.^[22] This started transmission on BBC2 on 29 July 2012 and on BBC HD a day later. In October 2012, he appeared, with co-presenter Dr Alice Roberts in the BBC series Prehistoric Autopsy.^[23] In 2014, he presented Monkey Planet and a two-part series on BBC Four: Dissected: The Incredible Human Hand and Dissected: The Incredible Human Foot.^[24]

In October 2017, McGavin presented a one-off BBC documentary Oak Tree: Nature's Greatest Survivor.^[25]

In 2018 McGavin and Zoe Laughlin made a BBC Four documentary The Secret Life of Landfill: A Rubbish History, exploring the fate and future of rubbish deposited in landfill sites.^[26][27]

In 2020, McGavin and Helen Czerski presented a 90-minute BBC Four documentary called Ocean Autopsy: The Secret Story of Our Seas which focused on the changes both in North Sea and in the world's oceans.^[28]

Bibliography[edit]

• —— (1988). Discovering Bugs. Discovering Bugs., 45pp
• —— (1992). Insects of the Northern Hemisphere. Limpsfield & London: Dragon's World., 192pp
• —— (1993). Bugs of the World. Blandford Press., 192pp
• —— (1997). Expedition Field Techniques: Insects and other terrestrial arthropods. London: Royal Geographical Society., 90pp
• —— (2000). Dorling Kindersley Handbooks: Insects, spiders and other terrestrial arthropods. Dorling Kindersley., 255pp
• —— (2001). Essential Entomology: an order by order introduction. Oxford University Press., 318pp
• —— (2005). Dorling Kindersley Pocket Nature: Insects and Spiders. Dorling Kindersley., 224pp
• —— (2006). Endangered: wildlife on the brink of extinction. Cassells-Illustrated., 192pp
• Simpson, S.J. and McGavin, G.C. (1996), The Right Fly, Aurum Press, London, 192pp
• Simpson, S.J. and McGavin, G.C. (1996), The Angler's Fly Identifier, Running Press Book Publishers, Philadelphia, 192pp
• Simpson, S.J. and McGavin, G.C. (1997), Angler's Flies, Apple Press, 80pp

References[edit]

1. ^'Dr George McGavin'. Royal Entomological Society. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
2. ^ ^abc'Entomology: Staff'. Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Archived from the original on 9 August 2011. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
3. ^ ^ab'Revealing New Guinea's forest secrets'. BBC Online. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
4. ^ ^abc'Public Lecture – 'To the Ends of the Earth' with Dr. George McGavin'. Durham University. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
5. ^ ^abc'Q&A with Dr George McGavin'. EarthWatch. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
6. ^'Biological Sciences – Alumni – George McGavin'. The University of Edinburgh. 13 August 2015.
7. ^University of Edinburgh biography.
8. ^'Staff: Academic'. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
9. ^ ^ab'Bug man'. BBC. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
10. ^Vetta, Sylvia (27 January 2009). 'The insect champion'. Oxford Times. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
11. ^ ^ab'Dr George McGavin – Expedition Borneo'. Oxford University Exploration Club. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
12. ^ ^ab'Oxford University Museum of Natural History Annual Report 2006–2007'(PDF). Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Archived from the original(PDF) on 9 August 2011. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
13. ^'Bees declared the winners in Earthwatch's own Strictly Come Species battle'. 21 November 2008. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
14. ^Shanks, Peter (2 March 2010). '50 DAYS AROUND THE WORLD ON QUEEN MARY 2'. Cunard. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
15. ^'2017 Verrall Lecturer'. royensoc.co.uk. Royal Entomological Society.
16. ^WildScreen Annual Review 2010(PDF). Wildscreen. Archived from the original(PDF) on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
17. ^'Who'. Alderney Wildlife Trust. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
18. ^'BBC team discovers 'lost' tigers'. BBC Press Office. 20 September 2010.
19. ^ ^ab'Dr George McGavin'. Royal Institution. Archived from the original on 11 February 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
20. ^'Afterlife'. BBC Online Press Office. 30 March 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
21. ^'Afterlife: The Science of Decay'. BBC Online. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
22. ^'BBC unveils new natural history commissions'. BBC Online press office. 8 July 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
23. ^'Prehistoric Autopsy'. BBC Online. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
24. ^Radio Times 22–28 February 2014
25. ^'Oak Tree: Nature's Greatest Survivor'.
26. ^Walton, James (25 August 2018). 'I had no idea how fascinating rubbish could be: The Secret Life of Landfill reviewed'. The Spectator. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
27. ^'The Secret Life of Landfill: A Rubbish History'. BBC Four. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
28. ^'Ocean Autopsy: The Secret Story of Our Seas'. BBC Four. Retrieved 21 October 2020.

External links[edit]

• George McGavin on IMDb
• George's marvellous minibeasts (BBC)
• BBC Wildlife Magazine podcast featuring guest appearance by McGavin (mp3)

The Modern Language Association (MLA) provides explicit, specific recommendations for the margins and spacing of academic papers. (See: Document Format.) But their advice on font selection is less precise: “Always choose an easily readable typeface (e.g. Times New Roman) in which the regular style contrasts clearly with the italic, and set it to a standard size (e.g. 12 point)” (MLA Handbook, 7th ed., §4.2).

So which fonts are “easily readable” and have “clearly” contrasting italics? And what exactly is a “standard” size?

For academic papers, an “easily readable typeface” means a serif font, and a “standard” type size is between 10 and 12 point.

Use A Serif Font

Serifs are the tiny strokes at the end of a letter’s main strokes. Serif fonts have these extra strokes; sans serif fonts do not. (Sans is French for “without.”) Serif fonts also vary the thickness of the letter strokes more than sans serifs, which have more uniform lines.

Books, newspapers, and magazines typically set their main text in a serif font because they make paragraphs and long stretches of text easier to read. Sans serifs (Arial, Calibri, Helvetica, Gill Sans, Verdana, and so on) work well for single lines of text, like headings or titles, but they rarely make a good choice for body text.

Moreover, most sans serifs don’t have a true italic style. Their “italics” are really just “obliques,” where the letters slant slightly to the right but keep the same shape and spacing. Most serifs, on the other hand, do have a true italic style, with distinctive letter forms and more compact spacing.

Since they’re more readable for long passages and have sharper contrast in their italics, you should always use a serif font for the text of an academic paper.

Use A Readable Type Size

The standard unit for measuring type size is the point. A point is ¹⁄₇₂ of an inch, roughly one pixel on a computer screen. The point size of a font tells you the size of the “em square” in which your computer displays each letter of the typeface. How tall or wide any given letter is depends on how the type designer drew it within the em square, thus a font’s height and width can vary greatly depending on the design of the typeface. That’s why if you set two fonts at the same point size, one usually looks bigger than the other.

Compare the following paragraphs, both set at 12 point but in different fonts:

For body text in academic papers, type sizes below 10 point are usually too small to read easily, while type sizes above 12 point tend to look oversized and bulky. So keep the text of your paper between 10 and 12 point.

Some teachers may require you to set your whole text at 12 point. Yet virtually every book, magazine, or newspaper ever printed for visually unimpaired grown-ups sets its body type smaller than 12 point. Newspapers use even smaller type sizes. The New York Times, for example, sets its body text in a perfectly legible 8.7 point font. So with proper spacing and margins, type sizes of 11 or 10 point can be quite comfortable to read.

Font Recommendations

I usually ask my students to use Century Schoolbook or Palatino for their papers. If your teacher requires you to submit your papers in a particular font, do so. (Unless they require you to use Arial, in which case drop the class.)

One thing to consider when choosing a font is how you submit your essay. When you submit a hard copy or a PDF, your reader will see the text in whatever typeface you use. Most electronic submission formats, on the other hand, can only use the fonts available on the reader’s computer. So if you submit the paper electronically, be sure to use a font your instructor has.

What follows is a list of some widely available, highly legible serif fonts well-suited for academic papers. I’ve divided them into four categories: Microsoft Word Fonts, Mac OS Fonts, Google Fonts, and Universal Fonts.

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Microsoft Word Fonts

Microsoft Word comes with lots of fonts of varying quality. If your teacher asks you to submit your paper in Word format, you can safely assume they have Word and all the fonts that go with it.

Morris Fuller Benton designed Century Schoolbook in 1923 for elementary-school textbooks, so it’s a highly readable font. It’s one of the best fonts available with Microsoft Word. Because it’s so legible, U. S. Supreme Court Rule 33.1.b madates that all legal documents submitted to the Court be set in Century Schoolbook or a similar Century-style font.

Hermann Zapf designed Palatino in 1948 for titles and headings, but its elegant proportions make it a good font for body text. Named for Renaissance calligrapher Giambattista Palatino, this font has the beauty, harmony, and grace of fine handwriting. Palatino Linotype is the name of the font included with Microsoft Word; Mac OS includes a version of the same typeface called simply Palatino.

Microsoft Word includes several other fonts that can work well for academic essays: Bell MT, Californian FB, Calisto MT, Cambria, Garamond, and Goudy Old Style.

Mac OS Fonts

Apple has a well-deserved reputation for design excellence which extends to its font library. But you can’t count on any of these Mac OS fonts being on a computer that runs Windows.

Finding his inspiration in the typography of Pierre Simon Fournier, Matthew Carter designed Charter in 1987 to look good even on crappy mid-80s fax machines and printers. Its ability to hold up even in low resolution makes Charter work superbly well on screen. Bitstream released Charter under an open license, so you can add it to your font arsenal for free. You can download Charter here.

In 1991 Apple commissioned Jonathan Hoefler to design a font that could show off the Mac’s ability to handle complex typography. The result was Hoefler Text, included with every Mac since then. The bold weight of Hoefler Text on the Mac is excessively heavy, but otherwise it’s a remarkable font: compact without being cramped, formal without being stuffy, and distinctive without being obtrusive. If you have a Mac, start using it.

Other Mac OS fonts you might consider are Baskerville and Palatino.

Google Fonts

When you submit a paper using Google Docs, you can access Google’s vast library of free fonts knowing that anyone who opens it in Google Docs will have those same fonts. Unfortunately, most of those free fonts are worth exactly what you paid for them, so choose wisely.

IBM Plex is a super-family of typefaces designed by Mike Abbink and the Bold Monday type foundry for — you guessed it — IBM. Plex serif is a solid, legible font that borrows features from Janson and Bodoni in its design. Plex is, not surprisingly, a thoroughly corporate font that aims for and achieves a bland neutrality suitable for most research papers.

John Baskerville originally designed this typeface in the 1850s, employing new techniques to make sharper contrasts between thin and thick strokes in the letter forms. The crisp, elegant design has inspired dozens of subsequent versions. Libre Baskerville is based on the American Type Founder’s 1941 version, modified to make it better for on-screen reading.

Unfortunately. Google Fonts has few really good serif fonts. Some others you might consider are Crimson Pro and Spectral.

Universal Fonts

Anyone you send your document to will have these fonts because they’re built in to both Windows and Mac OS.

Matthew Carter designed Georgia in 1993 for maximum legibility on computer screens. Georgia looks very nice on web sites, but in print it can look a bit clunky, especially when set at 12 point. Like Times New Roman, it’s on every computer and is quite easy to read. The name “Georgia” comes from a tabloid headline: “Alien Heads Found in Georgia.”

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Times New Roman is, for better or worse, the standard font for academic manuscripts. Many teachers require it because it’s a solid, legible, and universally available font. Stanley Morison designed it in 1931 for The Times newspaper of London, so it’s a very efficient font and legible even at very small sizes. Times New Roman is always a safe choice. But unless your instructor requires it, you should probably use something a bit less overworked.