The glory days of taxonomy, when new species from the mountains, jungles, deserts and oceans of the world fell into the hands of Western scientists on a daily basis, are long gone. But new species are still described from time to time, not least by the genetic analysis of populations that anatomists have been unable to separate. So it is with the tortoises of Santa Cruz, second largest of the Galápagos Islands, whose two isolated groups may or may not have been separate species. That they are h...
The glory days of taxonomy, when new species from the mountains, jungles, deserts and oceans of the world fell into the hands of Western scientists on a daily basis, are long gone. But new species are still described from time to time, not least by the genetic analysis of populations that anatomists have been unable to separate. So it is with the tortoises of Santa Cruz, second largest of the Galápagos Islands, whose two isolated groups may or may not have been separate species. That they are h...
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