TAXONOMY, from the Greek origins of the word, is the law of order. The theory and practice of classification is, and has been, the first function of the taxonomist. In the earlier history of botanical ...

Strange fossils, including some that could be predecessors to modern animals, found in China shed new light on the evolution of large, complex organisms, and indicate that they may have diversified ...

Taxon, Vol. 18, No. 2, Smithsonian Summer Institute in Systematics 1968, Part 2 (Apr., 1969), pp. 204-212 (9 pages) In response to skeptics who feel that the contribution of paleobotany to phylogeny ...

University of Guam associate director Else Demeulenaere, Ph.D., has contributed to research that reclassified Caesalpinioidea, a group of plants that includes the critically endangered Serianthes, ...

Ethnobotanical data collected among the Eipo people in the Central Highlands of West New Guinea are compared with the theoretical model of ethnotaxonomic systems developed by Berlin and co-workers ...

The US Drug Enforcement Administration plans to name a new Schedule I drug: a Southeast Asian plant known for its opiate-like effects called kratom. The move may slow down medical research into a ...