"Cultural features—such as having a common name in English, being useful or harmful to humans, or being included on the Red List of Threatened Species—also strongly correlated with both scientific and societal interest.
By contrast, colorful species, those more closely related to humans, and freshwater dwelling species all received great societal attention, but were not important traits for attracting scientific interest."
#biodiversity
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-biodiversity-efforts-world-species.html
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