Taxonomic Impediment or Impediment to Taxonomy? A Commentary on Systematics and the Cybertaxonomic-Automation Paradigm

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  2007

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  Evolutionary biology

• Publication date

  2007-11-09

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  Biology

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  DOI 10.1007/s11692-007-9011-6
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