Abstract
The history of taxonomy has arrived, in the twenty-first century, at a formidable juncture in the heart of the Anthropocene, suggesting that taxa may be so stressed as to have broadly hybridized at levels we cannot even discern. New rules of evolution are surfacing, and one of the most critical questions of all concerns the degree of latitude within human community structures that might itself be subject to equally new summons through natural or quasi-natural selection.
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