A new domain of life
Plenty more bugs in the sea
Tantalising evidence is emerging of a serious gap in biologists' understanding of the diversity of life on Earth
LIFE, like Caesar's Gaul, is divided into three parts. The Linnaean system of classification, with its prescriptive hierarchy of species, genus, family, order, class, phylum and kingdom, ultimately lumps everything alive into one of three giant groups known as domains.
http://www.economist.com/node/18437900
Plenty more bugs in the sea
Tantalising evidence is emerging of a serious gap in biologists' understanding of the diversity of life on Earth
LIFE, like Caesar's Gaul, is divided into three parts. The Linnaean system of classification, with its prescriptive hierarchy of species, genus, family, order, class, phylum and kingdom, ultimately lumps everything alive into one of three giant groups known as domains.
http://www.economist.com/node/18437900
