Everybody is talking about Encyclopedia of Life these days. It is alll still very Beta - we'll wait and see how it turns out in the end. Many are enthusiastic, some are skeptical. But, what happened to the Tree of Life? Remember it from 1995 and after? I found it useful during the last decade for teaching and finding info. Why build a whole new thing when the old one could be updated and modernized instead - it is already chockful of information.
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