Will Tribal Knowledge Survive the Millennium?
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- 7 January 2000
- journal article
- essays on-science-and-society
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 287 (5450) , 44-45
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.287.5450.44
Abstract
We do not know at the beginning of this new millennium if ethnobotanists and anthropologists will be able to rescue most of the indigenous knowledge systems before they are lost forever. Cox describes the importance of knowledge from many cultures in finding new therapeutic drugs and his experiences as an ethnobotanist.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: