A biography of scientists Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis LeClerc explores the complex, disparate lives of two brilliant men who shaped the study of natural history.
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Some say Latin names are elitist and incomprehensible, but they started out as a way to be inclusive.
Taxonomy does not exist in a vacuum. It is deeply entwined with history and society.
Most of the plants we know and admire were named after white, western men. Indigenous knowledge has been largely absent from the field of botany.
The colonial era profoundly shaped natural history museums and collections. Herbaria, which are scientists’ main source of plant specimens from around the world, are no exception.
A new ‘rule book’ for naming genomically sequenced bacteria is a boon for science.
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