Darren Curnoe receives funding from the Australian Research Council. How many kinds of plants and animals are there in the world? Where do humans fit within the vast fabric of life? Indeed, how did ...

With the advent of genomic sequencing and genetic analysis in the 1990s, our understanding of the relationships between different microorganisms fundamentally changed. In light of this new knowledge, ...

Thank you for publishing Malcolm G. Scully’s “Are You a Lumper or a Splitter?” (August 16, The Review). The issues are by no means limited to birds. ... A great many of my colleagues around the very ...

What effects will the rapidly growing field of synthetic biology have on the conservation of nature? The ecological and ethical challenges stemming from this question will require a new and continuing ...