Genomic research and the field
of systematic biology have since refined this sorting, but Spiegel argues outdated ideas continue to distort evolutionary relationships among organisms.
The British government has ruled out extra funding
for systematic biology, the science of naming and classifying organisms.
In a report
on systematic biology published last year, the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology called on the government to earmark an extra Pounds Sterling 5 million spread over five years for systematics research.
Serra Hoagland Serra grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills in Placerville, Calif., and earned a BS in ecology and
systematic biology from California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) in San Luis Obispo.
Carolus Linnaeus (helped develop sciences of taxonomy and
systematic biology / developed the Classification System)
There has to be a uniting of molecular and
systematic biology.
Systematic biology 55: 162 - 169.