We do not know at the beginning of this new millennium if ethnobotanists and anthropologists will be able to rescue most of the indigenous knowledge systems before they are lost forever. Cox describes the importance of knowledge from many cultures in finding new therapeutic drugs and his experiences as an ethnobotanist.
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Paul Alan Cox (2000) studied this question.
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