What defines a species? Inside the fierce debate that's rocking biology to its core
When you purchase through connection on our site , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it works . In 2016 , scientists publisheda paperwith a bold claim : that the giraffe , first described as a coinage by Swedish life scientist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 , might in reality have beenfour mintage all along . Unlike Linneaus , the research worker had access to modern genetic tools , which revealed that camelopard descend into distinct clusters base on differences in their DNA , some of which are " larger than the differences between brown bears and glacial bears , " the authorssaid at the metre ....