Bias

While reading and thinking about menaces of biodiversity, one curiosity stroke my eyes.
Myers (1996) observed an interesting bias:
"While biodiversity, (...) and indeed life itself, is the key characteristic of our planet, we know more about the total numbers of atoms in the universe than about Earth's complement of species. We spend more time on exploring distant planets than on documenting the abundance and variety of life here on earth." (in "The Rich Diversity of Biodiversity Issues", Washington, D.C., 1996)
Reflecting more about this topic and looking for ways out of this bias will be the subejct of the next post.