»In which we wonder: is it animal? or vegetable? or mineral?

Willi Hennig was an entolmologist who developed a theory of phylogenetic systematics, describing how species relate to each other, which has led to the study known as cladistics.
This story about a deep-sea-dwelling blind antarctic sea spider underscores the difficulty of classification.

salim filed this under crescat scientia at 22h57 Sunday, 13 August 2006 (link) (Yr two bits?)