What is Taxonomy and Why is it So Complicated?
The classification of animal groups is essential to the the development of modern biology—but it's extremely complicated. Trying to shoehorn the messy, complicated web of interrelationships that is biology into neat boxes has resulted in a pretty messy tree of life that we'll try to break down for you in this episode of SciShow! Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: / scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, KatieMarie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Avi Yashchin, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: / scishow Twitter: / scishow Tumblr: / scishow Instagram: / thescishow ---------- Sources: https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gl... Irie et al 2018 https://zoologicalletters.biomedcentr... Komarek and Beutel 2007 https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... Satoh et al 2014 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... Padial et al 2010 https://frontiersinzoology.biomedcent... de Queiroz 2012 http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eeb... https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/asset... https://www.cbd.int/gti/importance.shtml https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... https://phys.org/news/2017-08-biodive... https://www.cell.com/current-biology/... https://www.britannica.com/animal/tur... https://www.britannica.com/animal/din... https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/artic... https://science.sciencemag.org/conten... Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Li... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:La... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sp... https://nautiluslive.org/video/2019/0... https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Li...
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