Conserving Our Shared HeritageReversing catastrophic threats to our planet’s biodiversity is not optional: our lives depend on it.Although countless species have come and gone, today we share the planet with tens of millions of species, simultaneously shaping the Earth's very form and function. . . .By Thomas E. Lovejoy | MORE TOPICSFundingNanomedicine Neuroscience Omics Synthetic Biology | ||||
 | Opinion: Exploring a Little-Known PlanetCataloging the staggering richness of Earth’s species will have multiple payoffs.One of the fundamental questions of biology is the amount and full nature of biodiversity on Earth. It should be worrisome to all that 250 years after Carl Linnaeus introduced the practice of binomial nomenclature and articulated the goal of identifying all species of organisms, we still have accounted for only a tiny fraction of the whole. . . .By Edward O. Wilson | |
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