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Challenges for taxonomy

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The discipline will have to reinvent itself if it is to survive and flourish.

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I am grateful to the many taxonomists and other biologists who have debated these issues with me.

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  1. Department of Biological Sciences, NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, SL5 7PY, Berkshire, UK

    H. Charles J. Godfray

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Godfray, H. Challenges for taxonomy. Nature 417, 17–19 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/417017a

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