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Natural history museums (hereafter NHMs or museums) are considered the heirs of the 16th-17th century "Wunderkammern", also known as "cabinets of curiosities" (Butler et_al, 1998; McCarter et_al, 2001). The information gathered from extinct species is irreplaceable and lost forever: the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) declared 160 animal and plant species extinct between 2010 and 2019, although recent estimates suggest that this estimate may be as high as one thousand species per year (Ceballos et_al, 2015; Shivanna, 2020). As reported elsewhere (Alberch et_al, 1994; Bakker et_al, 2020), NHMs should be primarily . . .
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