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Latest Cal Nat Blog for June 21st, 2021

The difficulty of naming species

"No term is more difficult to define than 'species,' and on no point are zoologists more divided than as to what should be understood by this word." — H.A. Nicholson (1872) Naming species has given naturalists a common vocabulary that allows us to communicate to each other about broader concepts such as conservation, biodiversity, or...