Antedating of "Biodiversity"

[Fred Shapiro]

biodiversity (OED 1987)

1986 _Nature_ 18 Sept. 193  The group, which will probably be restricted
to 10 members, intends to make its first declaration at the start of a
three-day symposium on "bioDiversity" to be held this week by the National
Academy of Sciences and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Fred Shapiro


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