A taxonomic misunderstanding

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Aug 312013
 

I was browsing Malcolm Campbell’s (highly recommended) weekly science link collection this morning, and came across an article in Nautilus on the newly described olinguito species. I was really enjoying the article, until the third to last paragraph, which triggered a bit of Twitter rant.

http://storify.com/BioInFocus/a-rant-about-new-species-discovery

I guess I hadn’t resolved all my earlier issues with mammal bias…

Oops.

 

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  1. Expiscor (2 September 2013) | Arthropod Ecology says:
    September 2, 2013 at 8:48 am

    […] A taxonomic misunderstanding. A good (and important) rant. […]

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