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While the pre-Origin species concepts of Cuvier (pictured), Hooker, Humboldt, Agassiz, Herschel, Whewell, Henslow, and other Victorians have obviously flunked the test of time, they were neither unsophisticated nor religiously obscurantist
In 1862, Darwin acknowledged to the botanist Asa Gray that "I know almost as well as you, that systematic work is the foundation of everything" #TaxonomistAppreciationDay