Sentences with phrase «past taxonomists»
As a result, past taxonomists had categorized the variants as subspecies at best, meaning that although they bred together, they were morphologically or geographically distinct.
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About 3 dozen taxonomists, informatics experts, ecologists, sociologists, and computer scientists met this week at the New York Botanical Garden and decided that in the past decade, technological improvements — primarily related to molecular tools and the digitization of collections (such as the Biodiversity Heritage Library)-- make such a major undertaking possible.
Taxonomist Ken Hill of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney and his co - workers reported this past year that both the cones and the DNA of the Wollemi pine place it in a family that includes pines such as the Chilean monkey puzzle tree and the New Zealand kauri pine.
For tarantula taxonomists of the past, this posed a frustrating challenge, resulting in classifications that divided tarantulas into many more species than the group required, Hamilton found.