Timeline for How many (taxonomic) families are there?
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| Jan 23 at 13:08 | comment | added | David | Not so many they couldn't fit on a very big boat. | |
| May 7, 2017 at 3:14 | vote | accept | CircleSquared | ||
| May 2, 2017 at 12:08 | answer | added | Oosaka | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 29, 2017 at 14:52 | answer | added | Oosaka | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 29, 2017 at 1:14 | comment | added | Christian Sirolli | This was asked three years ago. I am curious what the numbers look like today. | |
| Sep 21, 2015 at 14:48 | history | protected | AliceD♦ | ||
| Apr 30, 2015 at 14:51 | answer | added | March Ho | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 30, 2015 at 3:23 | answer | added | Donatello | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 9, 2014 at 6:15 | comment | added | shigeta | ... but just as a round estimate its thousands at least. browsing encyclopedia of life I see scores just in the flowering plants... | |
| Feb 6, 2014 at 22:35 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackBiology/status/431556662387040256 | ||
| Feb 6, 2014 at 21:12 | comment | added | Chinmay Kanchi | Families (and really, any taxa except species, to some extent) are artificial, fluid and ever-changing. That's not to say they aren't useful, but the number of families is likely to be changing quite a lot on a nearly daily basis, as more and more families are converted into monophyletic groups based on DNA evidence. | |
| Feb 6, 2014 at 19:22 | answer | added | Tilia | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 6, 2014 at 18:04 | history | asked | CircleSquared | CC BY-SA 3.0 |