Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider Epistemology

Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider EpistemologyAn engaging history of the surprising, poignant, and occasionally scandalous stories behind scientific names and their cultural significance, More fun than youve ever had with taxonomy in your whole entire life!" (Diana Gabaldon, author of the Outlander series and PhD in Quantitative Behavioral Ecology) Ever since Carl Linnaeuss binomial system of scientific names was adopted in the eighteenth century, scientists have been eponymously naming organisms

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Guinea pigs Bob and Ginger head to the great outdoors to hunt for bugs and try to find one for every letter of the alphabet

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and describes and explains their conquest

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and one member of the Maelstroms has found something worth sacrificing for

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will be safe from the demons drawn to her Brand of Sacrifice

from the lowly impulses prevailing in popular imagery to their refinement in the great visions of the ages