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What makes a genus real? Scientists use tree bats to evaluate a testable '2 Sigma Genus Concept'
- March 18, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Dr. Amy Baird, Professor of Biology at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD), and her colleagues are seeking to change the attitude of biologists toward the meaning of taxonomic categories above the species level with their paper "The 2 Sigma Genus Concept in mammalogy: Lessons from Lasiurus," recently published in the journal PLOS One.
Originally published at Phys.org