Affiliation:
1. Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138–2902, USA
Abstract
There are at present, at rough estimate, ca. 6000 taxonomists at work worldwide on all organisms combined. That is a tiny slice of the biological community as a whole, and their discipline remains one of the weakest and most underfunded (Wilson 2002). From my own museum experience, I believe that twice this number, with several technical assistants each and the aforementioned new technologies, could move the global biodiversity survey to near completion within a single human generation.
Subject
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
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