The relevance of taxonomy in our genomic era is greater than ever. Correct naming is crucial for developing new foods and medicines, and for understanding our changing environment. Amazingly, we do ...

The classification of species allows the subdivision of living organisms into smaller and more specialised groups. The binomial system is important because it allows scientists to accurately identify ...

Taxonomy is the science that attempts to categorise the many millions of species on Earth. Find out how to define taxonomy, what taxonomists do and why classifying life is so important. The definition ...

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Theodore M. Barkley, Paula DePriest, Vicki Funk, Robert W. Kiger, W. John Kress and Gerry Moore As a follow-up to the 2001 Smithsonian Botanical Symposium, in late June of 2002 a group of 15 ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/25065544 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/25065544 Copy URL Lectotypes, neotypes and epitypes are designated by fifteen specialists for 99 ...

SKEPTICISM IS A VIRTUE: That’s the slogan under which Brill’s Content, the media-watchdog magazine, wages war on bias, cant, and sloppiness in the press. The magazine can be tough on journalists whom ...

A gardener friend of ours used to object to calling a plant by its Latin name. She heard it as pretense and obfuscation. But after the sage incident, she conceded that there was some point to it.

Each flash card is printed on the recto side only and has a small engraved illustration (some are lightly hand-colored) with two numbered questions The booklet, which has 38 pages, contains answers to ...

Anyone who has watched a rooster stalking around a farmyard might agree that there is something very dinosaur-like about birds. That may come as no surprise, given that birds are dinosaurs. But in ...