Defining A Species Is Open To Debate.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- ZIMMER, CARL
- Source
- New York Times. 2/20/2024, Vol. 173 Issue 60070, pD1-D4. 2p.
- Subject
- *SPECIES
*RESEARCH personnel
*BIOLOGISTS
*NATURALISTS
- Language
- ISSN
- 0362-4331
The article reports on the debates by naturalists and biologists on the right definition of species in their efforts to name and catalog all the species on Earth. Also cited are the some works like Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus' naming of a giraffe specie in 1758, the definition of species proposed by German ornithologist Ernst Mayr in the 1940s, and the comment of University of Lodz biologist Michal Grabowski on the developments.