Taxonomy is the science that attempts to categorise the many millions of species on Earth. Find out how to define taxonomy, what taxonomists do and why classifying life is so important. The definition ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/1554968 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1554968 Copy URL Results from a previous broad-scale analysis employing trnL-trnF sequence data for ...

Taxonomies are an important tool in balancing the contradictory forces of information overload and the need for instant access to the right information According to the writer Jorge Luis Borges, a ...

As semantics and linked data become increasingly mainstream, one question that seems to be asked increasingly has to do with a comparatively recent term, ontology, and how ontologies differ from ...

Kevin de Queiroz, a zoologist and curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History backs a movement to change the way we name species. I quoted him in a story on Carolus Linnaeus, who's ...