Scientists have always had an irresistible urge to list and classify. But the work of the artist Herman de Vries reminds us that nature's variety will always defy our attempts at imposing a fixed order.
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Kemp, M. De Vries's varieties. Nature 392, 235 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/32551
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