Word: speciesism
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One of the best novels written about Sept. 11, 2001, was published in August 2000. Look to Windward, by Scottish science-fiction writer Iain M. Banks, is set in a galaxy-wide civilization called the Culture that's so ridiculously technologically advanced that people have become functionally immortal godlings. They...
The 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 by 2017.
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?...
“It 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...
The site could help track invasive and infectious species, allowing scientists to predict where such organisms might flourish based on climatic factors, Farrell added.