We have seen in Chapter 6 and the previous chapters that dissatisfaction with traditional taxonomy gave rise, after the Second World War, to two distinct attempts at a remedy - phenetics and cladistics.

And the thunder, / Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage, / Perhaps hath spent his shafts.

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As an algorist Ramanujan had few peers in the world of mathematics.