Charles Darwin's barnacle and David Bowie's spider : how scientific names celebrate adventurers, heroes, and even a few scoundrels / Stephen B. Heard, with illustrations by Emily S. Damstra.

Ever since Carl Linnaeus's binomial system of scientific names was adopted in the eighteenth century, scientists have been eponymously naming organisms in ways that both honor and vilify their namesakes. This charming, informative, and accessible history examines the fascinating stories behind taxon...

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Main Author: Heard, Stephen B. (Author)
Other Authors: Damstra, Emily S. (Illustrator)
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
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Physical Description:ix, 241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a A lemur and its name -- The need for names -- How scientific naming works -- Forsythia, magnolia, and names within names -- Gary Larson's louse -- Maria Sibylla Merian and the metamorphosis of natural history -- David Bowie's spider, Beyoncé's fly, and Frank Zappa's jellyfish -- Spurlingia: a snail for the otherwise forgotten -- The name of evil -- Richard Spruce and the love of liverworts -- Names from the ego -- Eponymy gone wrong? Robert von Beringe's gorilla and Dian Fossey's tarsier -- Less than a tribute: the temptation of insult naming -- Charles Darwin's tangled bank -- Love in a latin name -- The indigenous blind spot -- Harry Potter and the name of the species -- Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer adn the fish from the depths of time -- Names for sale -- A fly for Mabel Alexander -- Madame Berthe's mouse lemur. 
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