Species, Science and Society

- presents an engaging and accessible examination of the role of systematic biology in species exploration and biodiversity conservation

- clarifies misconceptions about systematic biology, reimagining it for the 21st Century

- proposes an ambitious, planetary-scale project to inventory and make known every kind of plant, animal, and microbe on Earth

- challenges the next and present generations of taxonomists to allow molecular data to assume it’s proper place alongside traditional data, to reembrace the fundamentally important mission of systematics

- will be of great interest to those researching and working in systematics in botany and zoology, as well as professionals working in taxonomy and biodiversity conservation.