Scientific classification - Topics

How fossil and hybrid species get their names Cladistics vs phenetics: what counts as a natural group How does a research library organise its shelves around the branches of science? Why paraphyletic groups like reptiles survive in everyday language What can be learned from historical attempts to draw a complete tree of knowledge? Is there a branch of science that studies the branches of science themselves? Is an outline of science just a list of fields or does it need a hierarchy? Does kingdom still mean anything above phylum? Taxonomic revisions that renamed species known for a century Latinate Greek and German roots: how scientific names get coined How do you draw the boundary between two neighbouring disciplines that share methods? Deciding whether a population is a subspecies or a full species Why many taxonomists are abandoning Linnaean ranks How a new species gets an official name under the ICZN code How herbaria keep plant specimens usable for centuries Type specimens: the one preserved animal that anchors a species name What DNA barcoding changed about identifying specimens Why birds are classified inside the dinosaur family tree Why fish is not a valid taxonomic group Cryptic species: two species hiding behind one name