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An 8 page paper answering 4 questions addressing issues such as “Explain why the Tropics have a higher biological diversity than other places” and “Where on Earth do you find relatively low species diversity near high species diversity?” Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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can provide substantial benefits to mankind. Identify and explain at least 3 practical benefits (realized opportunities) that can be gained by humans by the study of systematics
Though a statement by the House of Lords in 1991 noted, "Under current conditions of small budgets and reduced personnel, resources devoted to systematics and biodiversity
are woefully small and stretched to the limit," that statement only addressed superficial conditions contributing to the dearth of systematic identification of species. Simpson and Cracraft (1995) go beyond
the obvious factors of reduced budgets and fewer personnel to the root cause of "decades of neglect - both fiscal and intellectual - on the part of governmental agencies and
academic institutions" (p. 670). This comes at a time, according to Simpson and Cracraft (1995), when the "use of a systematic perspective has burgeoned and the need for the
field has become ever greater" (p. 670). In contrast to responses to increased need in other areas of science or business, rather than creating more systematic taxonomists, universities have
been producing many fewer. In short, supply has not kept pace with demand. Human beings seem to have an innate need to
classify and categorize things, a need first addressed by Linneus when he first devised the binomial system of nomenclature for living organisms. Likely the most basic practical benefit of
the study of systematics is the ability to discuss specific organisms with others, using a common scientific name regardless of the varieties of common names that might exist.
A second practical benefit of the study of systematics is the ability it brings to trace a species move through evolutionary processes. The fossil
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