The ubled cancer of Charles Darwin and Spider David Bowie: as scientific names sings the heroes, adventurers and villains
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In his bewitching, excitingly written book, Stephen Hurrd cites amazing, very instructive, and sometimes scandalous stories that underlie the taxonomic nomenclature. From the very moment when in the XVIII century. The binomal system of the scientific names of Karl Linnaeus was adopted, scientists often appropriated the names of those whom they wanted to glorify or discredit animals and plants. Some of the scientists decided their ideological disagreements, exchanging unpleasant names, and someone gave the names of their secret lovers to flowers or beautiful jellyfish. Thanks to these names, we retain the memory of little-known supervisors, travelers and just brave people, without which many discoveries in biology would be impossible. Scientific names can tell us a lot about those to whom they are dedicated and about their authors - their worldview, addictions and weaknesses
Author:
Author:Hurd Stephen
Cover:
Cover:Hard
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- Category:Comics and Graphic Novels
- Category:Science & Math
- Category:Reference books
- Category:Natural sciences
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Publication Language:Russian
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:12+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-91671-992-5
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