After Arabella Sock's fascinating revelations over on her interesting but electorally-misguided Beardblog, I can reveal that in the last ten minutes or so, taxonomic studies have turned up stunning new information for Wilsonologists.
In the past, the world of professional botanists had chosen to classify the two American Wilsons as part of a wholly different family to our domestic Wilson. Now gel electrophoresis suggests that the three are in fact much more closely related than previously thought. All three Wilsons can be proven by "DNA Barcoding", similar to that used by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, to have a close common ancestor no later than 1965.
The immediate implications of the gel junkies' decision, taken at the World Botanical Congress at Kew, will be that M. Wilson as of today, is reclassified into a family with Owen and Luke.
What possible film projects might result is anyone's guess, but it does seem to bode well for future small-screen efforts at the very least.
The immediate implications of the gel junkies' decision, taken at the World Botanical Congress at Kew, will be that M. Wilson as of today, is reclassified into a family with Owen and Luke.
What possible film projects might result is anyone's guess, but it does seem to bode well for future small-screen efforts at the very least.
