(theglobeandmail.com): Just as our planet's organisms have begun dying off, the scientists who classify them have also begun to decline. This could have dire implications. Taxonomy faces a staggering enterprise. In the 250 years since Carl Linnaeus invented the system of classification still in wide use, about 1.9 million plants and animals have been identified. The latest estimates put this number at a 10th of what's actually out there – just counting macro-organisms. On the micro side, there could be 100 million species.
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