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One has to imagine that stepping into an herbarium, a library of pressed and dried plant specimens and the information we know about them, feels like stepping into the science of centuries past. Even the name evokes long-robed scholars shuffling through dusty stacks, and, indeed, the oldest extant herbarium has been operating in Rome for 500 years.might soon be consigned to the past that they conjure.
As with those European tomatoes, Quave writes, “imagine what scientists 500 years in the future could do with the specimens we collect and save today.”After the murder of Alexei Navalny, what dissident would still dare to speak out against Vladimir Putin’s repressive rule of Russia?, profiles one of them.
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