The Encyclopedia of Life: A Noble Mission
Biologist E.O. Wilson is a genius. Period. Sometimes referred to as Darwin’s natural heir, he is a world reknown biologist, a Harvard professor for 4 decades and someone who discovered hundreds of new species. Lately he won the 2007 TED prize. In his talk there he talks about his vision of an Encyclopedia of Life. Its a beautiful idea to use the entire planet to help catalog the entire planet.
There are millions of species we have discovered over so many years but there still so many out there we don’t know about. The idea of EOL is to as all of us travel around the world and explore the planet and find new things, we can contribute to EOL via photos, links, text, maps etc…. That way we will have an extensive catalog which a single scientific or research community could not setup all by itself.
A noble mission indeed and something I hope we can all contribute to.
