Top Taxonomy Quotes

As long as museums and universities send out expeditions to bring to light new forms of living and extinct animals and new data illustrating the interrelations of organisms and their environments, as...

It may be worth while to illustrate this view of classification, by taking the case of languages. If we possessed a perfect pedigree of mankind, a genealogical arrangement of the races of man would af...

Taxonomy Definition

(n.) That division of the natural sciences which treats of the classification of animals and plants; the laws or principles of classification.

If a curiously selective plague came along and killed all people of intermediate height, 'tall' and 'short' would come to have just as precise a meaning as 'bird' or 'mammal'. The same is true of huma...

Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground.