Should We Junk Linnaeus? From: Science News | Date: October 23, 1999| Author: MILIUS, SUSAN | COPYRIGHT 1999 Science Service, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

A bold band of taxonomists proposes to change the way every living thing gets named

Session 4.1 at the big International Botanical Congress in St. Louis drew an overflow crowd as some 200 chairs and most of the standing room filled with ... what? That was the question.

The symposium speakers came from a small group of taxonomists who are developing a new approach to naming all living things. Although these insurgents did not dispute that the botanists packing ...

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