Recently came across some ridiculously horrible taxonomy from China (.PDF). If you scroll down a bit you can see the english translation. At first glance this looks like a standard taxonomy paper with bare-bones species descriptions. You might even think to yourself, “huh, wonder why they are describing species from only one specimen”. Not the . . . → Lue lisää: Taksonomian Fail
 4 kommentit - (Kommenttien lisääminen on estetty)  Hyönteistiede  Perhoset, Crank, Hyönteistiede, perhoset, Uudet lajit The brief comment about Linus Pauling and Vitamin C below made me remember this video first posted a while ago by Pharyngula. This is Kary Mullis, the inventor of PCR, and a Nobel Prize winner. His invention basically made DNA analysis possible. But like Pauling, he is also completely and totally nuts. If you have . . . → Lue lisää: Sad but true Jaa tämä! |
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