Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W2079931657> ?p ?o ?g. }
Showing items 1 to 50 of
50
with 100 items per page.
- W2079931657 endingPage "275" @default.
- W2079931657 startingPage "275" @default.
- W2079931657 abstract "James H. Oliver, Jr.’s Policy Forum “Crisis in biosystematics of arthropods” (20 May, p. 967) would have the scientific community do the right deed for the wrong reason. Systematics is not simply the identification of specimens, it is the reconstruction of evolutionary history; and it should be supported not just because it has practical applications (which it does) but because it is a fundamental scientific discipline. Systematics is important because all living things are the product of history, and we can understand little about the diversity of organisms without knowledge of their history— the phylogenetic knowledge provided by systematics (1). One might just as well try to understand the current political conflicts in Central America or the Middle East without understanding the history of the people of those areas. Oliver correctly deplores the placement of major systematics collections in “maintenance storage,” and we further deplore the disposal of other collections (2) and the retreat of university biology departments into nonevolutionary disciplines. Many of the biological “laws” that such disciplines discover may be bounded by clade and place, and only systematic research—research on evolutionary history—can discover those bounds. Other recent calls for the support of systematics (3) have also emphasized its practical and cataloging aspects. We agree strongly that systematics is insufficiently supported, but we fear that these arguments based exclusively on “usefulness” will backfire in the long run. Systematics will not attract the brightest students—the true innovators of theory and practice—if it is portrayed as an identification service. Systematics must command attention because of the intellectual challenge it represents, in and of itself, as the study of evolutionary history. ROBERT J. O’HARA DAVID R. MADDISON Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 PETER F. STEVENS Curator, Arnold Arboretum and Gray Herbarium, Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 ______________________________________" @default.
- W2079931657 created "2016-06-24" @default.
- W2079931657 creator A5013182123 @default.
- W2079931657 creator A5060663041 @default.
- W2079931657 creator A5071150995 @default.
- W2079931657 date "1988-07-15" @default.
- W2079931657 modified "2023-10-16" @default.
- W2079931657 title "Federal Budget" @default.
- W2079931657 cites W2028172346 @default.
- W2079931657 doi "https://doi.org/10.1126/science.241.4863.275-c" @default.
- W2079931657 hasPubMedId "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17734852" @default.
- W2079931657 hasPublicationYear "1988" @default.
- W2079931657 type Work @default.
- W2079931657 sameAs 2079931657 @default.
- W2079931657 citedByCount "6" @default.
- W2079931657 countsByYear W20799316572016 @default.
- W2079931657 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
- W2079931657 hasAuthorship W2079931657A5013182123 @default.
- W2079931657 hasAuthorship W2079931657A5060663041 @default.
- W2079931657 hasAuthorship W2079931657A5071150995 @default.
- W2079931657 hasConcept C10138342 @default.
- W2079931657 hasConcept C144133560 @default.
- W2079931657 hasConcept C2779999868 @default.
- W2079931657 hasConcept C2780822617 @default.
- W2079931657 hasConceptScore W2079931657C10138342 @default.
- W2079931657 hasConceptScore W2079931657C144133560 @default.
- W2079931657 hasConceptScore W2079931657C2779999868 @default.
- W2079931657 hasConceptScore W2079931657C2780822617 @default.
- W2079931657 hasIssue "4863" @default.
- W2079931657 hasLocation W20799316571 @default.
- W2079931657 hasLocation W20799316572 @default.
- W2079931657 hasOpenAccess W2079931657 @default.
- W2079931657 hasPrimaryLocation W20799316571 @default.
- W2079931657 hasRelatedWork W1893160856 @default.
- W2079931657 hasRelatedWork W2262319717 @default.
- W2079931657 hasRelatedWork W2791236702 @default.
- W2079931657 hasRelatedWork W2915930806 @default.
- W2079931657 hasRelatedWork W3123462907 @default.
- W2079931657 hasRelatedWork W3125973394 @default.
- W2079931657 hasRelatedWork W3180537784 @default.
- W2079931657 hasRelatedWork W571035178 @default.
- W2079931657 hasRelatedWork W613822228 @default.
- W2079931657 hasRelatedWork W3124999405 @default.
- W2079931657 hasVolume "241" @default.
- W2079931657 isParatext "false" @default.
- W2079931657 isRetracted "false" @default.
- W2079931657 magId "2079931657" @default.
- W2079931657 workType "article" @default.