Peter Raven, botanist and advocate for biodiversity, has died, aged 89
via news.mongabay.com
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Life on Earth is often described as a web, but for much of modern science it was catalogued as a ledger: names, specimens, distributions, relationships drawn in careful lines. Over the course of the 20th century, that ledger gave way to a more connected view. Plants and animals were no longer just entries in a […]