What is Taxonomy and Why is it So Complicated?

The classification of animal groups is essential to the the development of modern biology—but it's extremely complicated. Trying to shoehorn the messy, complicated web of interrelationships that is biology into neat boxes has resulted in a pretty messy tree of life that we'll try to break down for you in this episode of SciShow!

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