Editing 1992 in science (section)

==Biology==
* May 21 – [[Saola]] first identified in the [[Vũ Quang]] rainforest reserve of northern [[Vietnam]]. This member of the [[bovini]] tribe is the first large mammal new to science anywhere in the world for more than fifty years and it will take another two decades before live specimens are recorded.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1038/363443a0|title=A new species of living bovid from Vietnam|year=1993|last1=Dung|first1=Vu Van|last2=Giao|first2=Pham Mong|last3=Chinh|first3=Nguyen Ngoc|last4=Tuoc|first4=Do|last5=Arctander|first5=Peter|last6=MacKinnon|first6=John|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|volume=363|issue=6428|page=443|bibcode = 1993Natur.363..443V |s2cid=4243603 }}</ref>
* British evolutionary biologist [[Richard Dawkins]] delivers the 1992 [[Voltaire Lecture]], "[[Viruses of the Mind]]", describing religion and the belief in god as a parasitic memetic virus that infects human minds.<ref>Dawkins, Richard (1992). Viruses of the Mind. 1992 Voltaire Lecture. London: British Humanist Association. Republished in 1993 in the book, ''Dennett and His Critics: Demystifying Mind''.</ref>