Too many larks?

 

I sometimes read extreme nerd articles like this one. I touched upon the extreme "splitting" activity of certain biologists before, when pseudo-reviewing a book about bovines and expressing the suspicion that the scientists just want more UN funding (apparently allocated on a species-by-species basis). 

So it was interesting to read a defense of the "splitters" and their morpho-genetic antics from a guy with a real degree in paleontology. 

The Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy was just the beginning it seems! Note the bashing of our very own national hero Carolus Linnaeus at the end... 

Larks Part 2: of Subspecies and Brickbats for Carl