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

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Publisher: Yale University Press,

Publication date: [2020],

Material Format: Paper

Capacity, size, etc.: ix, 241 pages : ; 22 cm.

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Note (General)：: Introduction: A lemur and its name -- The need for names -- How scientific naming works -- Forsythia, magnolia, and names within names -- Gary Larson'...

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東京都立中央図書館
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460.3-H43-C
Book Registration Number：
7114693369
東京都立中央図書館

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Material Type: 図書
ISBN: 0300238282 (hardcover)
9780300238280 (hardcover)
Title: Charles Darwin's barnacle and David Bowie's spider : : how scientific names celebrate adventurers, heroes, and even a few scoundrels /
Publication, Distribution, etc.: New Haven : : Yale University Press,
Publication Date: [2020],
Extent: ix, 241 pages : ; 22 cm.
Contributor: Stephen B. Heard, with illustrations by Emily S. Damstra.
Text Language Code: eng
NDC 10th ed.: 460.34 : Biology
Target Audience: 一般
Note (General): Introduction: A lemur and its name -- The need for names -- How scientific naming works -- Forsythia, magnolia, and names within names -- Gary Larson's louse -- Maria Sibylla Merian and the metamorphosis of natural history -- David Bowie's spider, Beyoncé's fly, and Frank Zappa's jellyfish -- Spurlingia: a snail for the otherwise forgotten -- The name of evil -- Richard Spruce and the love of liverworts -- Names from the ego -- Eponymy gone wrong? Robert von Beringe's gorilla and Dian Fossey's tarsier -- Less than a tribute: the temptation of insult naming -- Charles Darwin's tangled bank -- Love in a Latin name -- The indigenous blind spot -- Harry Potter and the name of the species -- Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer and the fish from the depths of time -- Names for sale -- A fly for Mabel Alexander -- Epilogue: Madame Berthe's mouse lemur.
Holding library: 東京都立中央図書館
Note (Library): 301
Call No.: 460.3-H43-C
Data Provider (Database): 東京都立中央図書館 : 公共図書館蔵書
Bibliographic ID (SomokuID): 1352051984
7114693369
OCLC No.: 2019947766
https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2019947766
(OCoLC)1112888729
https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/(OCoLC)1112888729