Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider, how scientific names celebrate adventurers, heroes, and even a few scoundrels, Stephen B. Heard
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Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider, how scientific names celebrate adventurers, heroes, and even a few scoundrels, Stephen B. Heard
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Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider
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Stephen B. Heard
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how scientific names celebrate adventurers, heroes, and even a few scoundrels
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Exploring the naming process as an opportunity for scientists to express themselves in creative ways, Stephen B. Heard's fresh approach shows how scientific names function as a window into both the passions and foibles of the scientific community and as a more general indicator of the ways in which humans relate to, and impose order on, the natural world
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