Pop Journals?! Re: vanishing taxonomists, which??

[Peter Rauch]

Pop journals, indeed!  :>)

SCIENCE (AAAS) 291(5512):2304-2307, 23 March 2001, "Linnaeus's
Last Stand? A fight has erupted over the best way to name and
classify organisms in light of current understanding of
evolution and biodiversity"

Peter

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, John Grehan wrote:
C. Thompson wrote:
> >And it seems the major preoccupation of vertebrate taxonomists is higher
> >classification / relationships. The "are birds dinosaurs?" questions or the
> >phylocode versus Linnaean nomenclature when the real threats to us come from
> >the combinations of insects and microbes (Iike West Nile fever and newly
> >introduced vectors like Aedes albopictus).
>
> It seems that these sorts of questions are the kind that get you into
> the pop journals such as Nature and Science,
> John Grehan