Hanken, J.: Organizing the world in the age of DNA (2007)
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- Abstract
- By meticulously categorizing life, maybe there's a chance we can save some species from extinction. That's perhaps the source of the excitement that erupted online when a team of leading biologists and software engineers announced the Encyclopedia of Life project in early May. The scientists plan to create an online catalog of the genome, geographic distribution, phylogenetic position, habitat, and ecological relationships of all 1.8 million known species on the planet. To do it, they'll use the latest technologies and scientific methods -- but they'll also use Carl Linnaeus' 272-year-old taxonomy system. James Hanken, director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University where he teaches evolutionary biology will lead Harvard's role in the project. The author of over 100 scientific publications, he's also an accomplished photographer, with his work appearing in Natural History, Audubon and Playboy. Hanken chatted with Wired News about Linnaeus' legacy in an age of genetic discovery that the father of taxonomy could not have imagined -- and the movement to uproot the Linnaean system.
