Linnaeus Legacy carnival 11 up

By evolvingthoughts on September 8, 2008.

At Kevin Zelnio's The Other 95%. Much crunchy goodness about taxonomy.

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What is Frazier to Cheers? What is Laverne and Shirley to Happy Days? Like one situation comedy spins off another, DSN pinch hitter Kevin Zelnio spins up a new blog over at blogspot called The Other 95%. Kevin's title refers to the invertebrate phyla, which make up 95% of the animal kingdom, but…

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I am proud to announce that DSN has its own theme song now via the generosity of Kevin Zelnio. As you may remember, Kevin Zelnio used to blog here and then spun off to create The Other 95%, a wonderful blog on everything invertebrate. Peter equated this to the Frazier/Cheers spin off. I see it…

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