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An Essay By E.O. Wilson It is an astonishing circumstance that in spite of the advanced state of our knowledge in many domains of biological research, we still have not discovered perhaps 90 percent of the species of organisms on Earth. Further, of the 10 percent known, only a tiny fraction has been studied beyond a minimal diagnosis and bestowal of a Latinized binomial name. Full story... Cape Cod BioBlitz The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History yesterday played host to a group of national researchers, educators and experts in a variety of biological disciplines. Full story...