• EOLv2 review by Jeremy Bruno at Scientopia

EOLv2 review by Jeremy Bruno at Scientopia

EOL gets me thinking. [My search] started with one of my favorite animals and quickly became a taxonomic scavenger hunt. I started researching: Just how many monotypic taxa are there? Why are they important? What does the classification say about these animals and their evolutionary history? As a writer, the answers become the building blocks for an essay. Usually there’s nothing manipulable about those ideas; they spawn from reading papers, from the ideas of others. EOL provides a level of control that allows systems to be constructed that plead for further explanation.

— Jeremy Bruno, 9/5/11

Thoughts:

The collection Jeremy created in the course of his review is now the #4 response when you do a Google search on the words “monotypic taxa”. I’ve noticed other EOL Collections being very highly placed in search results as well. Try “beautiful seamonsters”.
At the end of this review Jeremy says “EOL suddenly becomes a very interesting resource for science enthusiasts, educators and writers.” This makes us very happy, as this was a design goal.
A review of some of the (great many) collections created since launch shows that collections are catching on quickly with the enthusiast and educator community. To see a complete list of EOL Collections, click here.

Read Jeremy’s review at the Voltage Gate blog on Scientopia.org