Taxonomy is the classification and description of living organisms. It includes the naming and defining of species, and the collation of data about their biology and biogeography.

At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated ... a final hurdle in the standard practice of taxonomy and phylogeny: biology does not always adhere to our simplistic models.

In January 2025 a paper published in Current Biology (Ghezelayagh et al. 2025) explained that genetic analysis demonstrated that snail darters (Percina tanasi) represented a population of the more ...