Whole Critter Catalogue
The extraordinary Stewart Brand, who's name I recognised from the fascinating Long Now project, is written up in Wired as one of the prime movers behind a project to identify and list every one of Earth's species. Big deal, my first reaction. Turns out that we've only managed 1.6 million out of a possible 10 to 100 million so far:
"Imagine doing chemistry knowing only one third of the periodic table," biologist Terry Gosliner writes on the All Species website. "Sure, it can be done, but with an immense handicap. We are trying to do biology knowing perhaps only a tenth, or one hundredth, of our species. It is an immense handicap that does not need to exist."
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