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One Million Species .... and counting ...

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Message 1 of 4 (393985)
04-08-2007 10:21 PM

Effort to catalogue living species tops 1m
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A worldwide scientific effort to catalogue every living species has topped the one million milestone.
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Six years into the programme the total has reached 1 009 000, researchers report. They hope to complete the listing by 2011, reaching an expected total of about 1,75 million species.
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Thomas M Orrell, a biologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, said the finished catalogue will include all known living organisms, from plants and animals to fungi and micro-organisms such as bacteria, protozoa and viruses.
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"Many are surprised that, despite over two centuries of work by biologists and the current worldwide interest in biodiversity, there is presently no comprehensive catalogue of all known species of organisms on Earth," Orrell said.
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The listing does not include fossil species from the past.
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Presumably it also does not include fossil species from the future or the present ...
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Now all we need to know is how many kinds ...
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04-08-2007 10:25 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by RAZD
04-08-2007 10:21 PM

Where to?
Do you think this is links and information?
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Re: Where to?
sure
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04-18-2007 8:46 AM

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