Taxonomy: Renaissance or Tower of Babel?

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 57-59

  Mallet, James ^a,b   Willmott, Keith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAXONOMY; TEACHING;

EID: 0037296509     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(02)00061-7     Document Type: Short Survey

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