Uncertainty in science: is the giant panda a bear or a raccoon?
- 1 October 1986
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 323 (6091) , 769-771
- https://doi.org/10.1038/323769a0
Abstract
The few remaining doubts that the giant panda is a bear depend on the belief that it ought to be closely related to the lesser panda, and on controversial interpretations of molecular sequence differences.Keywords
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