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Auto-Classification: Friend or Foe of Taxonomy Management?

Ah, metadata and taxonomies: what’s not to love? Ask your content creators and you’ll be told loud and clear: having to apply said metadata and taxonomies to content through tagging. Although rich and ...
insider.si.edu

Do species exist? : principles of taxonomic classification / Werner Kunz

Are species constructs of the human mind? -- Why is there a species problem? -- Is the biological species a class or is it an individual? -- What are traits in taxonomy? -- Diversity within the ...
Nature

Uniting the classification of cultured and uncultured bacteria and archaea using 16S rRNA gene sequences

As the number of environmental small subunit (SSU) ribosomal RNA gene sequences has greatly surpassed the number of cultured microorganisms, reconciliation of the established taxonomy and ...
insider.si.edu

Cladistics a guide to biological classification David M. Williams, Natural History Museum, London, Malte C. Ebach, University of New South Wales

Introduction: Carving nature at its joints, or Why birds are not dinosaurs and men are not apes -- Part I. The Interrelationships of Organisms: 1. What this book is about -- 2. Classification -- Part ...