November 11, 2005

Classification's Complexities

By LEE S. SHULMAN

And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

 — Genesis 6:19-20

Classification is not for the faint of heart. Noah's instructions were clear and simple: Bring two animals of every sort onto the

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