[Taxacom] An improved definition of cladogenesis

[Bob Mesibov]

Richard Zander wrote:

"Lord Rutherford once said "Science is physics. Everything else is stamp-collecting." This doesn't apply here, but I thought I'd throw it in. :) "

[The man was a nuclear physicist, and he's also quoted as saying "Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine". Rutherford died in 1937.]

It certainly does *not* apply here. Anyone who thinks that discovering and documenting biodiversity is like stamp collecting just doesn't understand biology. It's 'collecting' in the same sense that 'discovering universes' is 'collecting': a spectacular understatement.
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Dr Robert Mesibov
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Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, and
School of Zoology, University of Tasmania
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