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Nature 446, 247-249 (15 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446247a; Published online 14 March 2007
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Linnaeus at 300: We are family
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- John Whitfield is a science writer based in London.
Abstract
Updating the tree of life needs both the skills of evolutionary biologists and the data from genome-crunchers — the two ignore each other at their peril. John Whitfield reports.
On 1 July 1858, in the Linnean Society of London's imposing neoclassical building on Piccadilly, biology changed for ever. That evening John Bennett, the society's secretary, read out papers by two biologists, Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin.
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