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The Name, the Pin, and the Bee

December 13, 2018 Sarah Federman, Agricultural Science and AAAS Fellow, Office of the Chief Scientist

She leans over her dead subject and deftly pushes a pin through its body, securing it to the foam below. To be clear, this is not about a morgue or a serial killer. This is about taxonomy, or the science of identifying, classifying, and naming organisms. The woman in question is a scientist, and her...

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