To protect them effectively,
systematists need to fill the huge gaps in our knowledge of most groups of species, the report said.
Not exact matches
The discovery «highlights that even in groups as well - known as birds we've just scratched the surface of what we really
need to know about biodiversity,» says avian
systematist Shannon Hackett of Chicago's Field Museum, who calls the research «good detective work.»
The molecular biology wars may also be ending in a rapprochement, he says, as the «test tube jockeys» belatedly recognize that they
need the «stamp collector»
systematists after all.