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Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences
The question whether taxonomic descriptions naming new animal species without type specimen(s) deposited in collections should be accepted for publication by scientific journals and allowed by the Code has already been discussed in Zootaxa (Dubois & NemĂ©sio 2007; Donegan 2008, 2009; NemĂ©sio 2009aâb; Dubois 2009; Gentile & Snell 2009; Minelli 2009; Cianferoni & Bartolozzi 2016; Amorim et al. 2016). This question was again raised in a letter supported
by 35 signatories published in the journal Nature (Pape et al. 2016) on 15 September 2016. On 25 September 2016, the following rebuttal (strictly limited to 300 words as per the editorial rules of Nature) was submitted to Nature, which on
18 October 2016 refused to publish it. As we think this problem is a very important one for zoological taxonomy, this text is published here exactly as submitted to Nature, followed by the list of the 493 taxonomists and collection-based
researchers who signed it in the short time span from 20 September to 6 October 2016
ContribuiçÔes da Sociologia na AmĂ©rica Latina Ă imaginação sociolĂłgica: anĂĄlise, crĂtica e compromisso social Sociology's contribution in Latin America to sociological imagination: analysis, critique, and social commitment
O artigo aborda o papel desempenhado pela Sociologia na anĂĄlise dos processos de transformação das sociedades latino-americanas, no acompanhamento do processo de construção do Estado e da Nação, na problematização das questĂ”es sociais na AmĂ©rica Latina. SĂŁo analisados seis perĂodos na Sociologia na AmĂ©rica Latina e no Caribe: I) a herança intelectual da Sociologia ; II) a sociologia da cĂĄtedra; III) O perĂodo da "Sociologia CientĂfica" e a configuração da "Sociologia CrĂtica"; IV) a crise institucional, a consolidação da "Sociologia CrĂtica" e a diversificação da sociologia; V) a sociologia do autoritarismo, da democracia e da exclusĂŁo; VI) a consolidação institucional e a mundialização da sociologia da AmĂ©rica Latina (desde o ano de 2000), podendo-se afirmar que os traços distintivos do saber sociolĂłgico no continente foram: o internacionalismo, o hibridismo, a abordagem crĂtica dos processos e conflitos das sociedades latino-americanas e o compromisso social do sociĂłlogo.<br>The article focuses on the role played by Sociology in the analysis of processes of change in Latin American societies, in the process of construction of Nation and State, in the debate of social issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. Six periods in Sociology in Latin America and the Caribbean are examined: I) sociology's intellectual legacy; II) sociology as a cathedra; III) the period of "Scientific Sociology"; IV) the institutional crisis, the consolidation of "Critical Sociology", and the diversifying of sociology; V) sociology of authoritarianism, democracy and exclusion; VI) institutional consolidation and globalization of Latin American sociology (since 2000). It may be said that the distinctive features of sociological knowledge in the continent were: internationalism, hybridism, the critical approach to processes and conflicts of Latin American societies, and the sociologist social commitment