taxonomy
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“A curator’s job is really dynamic if the collection is being used scientifically,” adds Andrew Austin, director of Taxonomy Australia.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 5, 2024
Taxonomy, the scientific discipline of naming and classifying animals, is how we break down critters into species.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2024
The findings were published in the European Journal of Taxonomy.
From Science Daily • Sep. 19, 2023
Taxonomy is a subjective discipline: many organisms have more than one connection to each other, so each taxonomist will decide the order of connections.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
I pulled Granddaddy’s Taxonomy of the Insect World from my bookshelf and turned to the order Lepidoptera.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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