Charles Darwin's barnacle and David Bowie's spider : how scientific names celebrate adventurers, heroes, and even a few scoundrels /

An engaging history of the surprising, poignant, and occasionally scandalous stories behind scientific names and their cultural significance Ever since Carl Linnaeus's binomial system of scientific names was adopted in the eighteenth century, scientists have been eponymously naming organisms in...

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Main Authors: Heard, Stephen B (Author), Heard, Stephen B. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter, EBSCOhost, Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Damstra, Emily S, Damstra, Emily S. (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
New Haven, CT : [2020]
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