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Tempest in a barcode: how rapidly can we (and should we) identify new species? (Ep 110)
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Tempest in a barcode: how rapidly can we (and should we) identify new species? (Ep 110)

How do biologists categorize species? What’s the best and quickest way to describe millions of unknown species?

On this episode, we talk with Michael Sharkey, an entomologist and taxonomist who spent much of his career at the University of Kentucky, and is now the director of the Hymenoptera Institute. Since its inception, taxonomy has relied on careful …

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