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...Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)—the brainchild of Harvard professor emeritus Edward O. Wilson—launched its first 30,000 entries yesterday, making a small dent in the 1.8 million species the online database intends to chronicle...
...EOL plans to provide textual, photographic, and graphical descriptions of every organism on the planet in order to provide comparative data for different species, as well as a means of identifying large-scale trends in species growth and movement, according to the press release for the Web site’s unveiling...
...will point to the holes in knowledge that require further research—we don’t really know what we know,” said Brian D. Farrell, a Harvard biology professor who produced a page for EOL about a beetle species known as Pissodes strobi...
...There will be a person responsible for verifying the science that is on each of the pages,” said Terry Collins, a spokesman for EOL. “The pages that are there have all been given the scientific seal of approval...
...EOL got its financial start in 2005 with the backing of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which provided a $10 million seed grant, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which contributed an additional $2.5 million to the project...