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Stephen B. Heard

Charles Darwin’s Barnacle and David Bowie’s Spider

Index

Yale University Press | 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300252699-026
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Stephen B. Heard 2020
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Heard, Stephen B.. "Index". Charles Darwin’s Barnacle and David Bowie’s Spider, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020, pp. 229-242. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300252699-026
Heard, S. (2020). Index. In Charles Darwin’s Barnacle and David Bowie’s Spider (pp. 229-242). New Haven: Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300252699-026
Heard, S. 2020. Index. Charles Darwin’s Barnacle and David Bowie’s Spider. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 229-242. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300252699-026
Heard, Stephen B.. "Index" In Charles Darwin’s Barnacle and David Bowie’s Spider, 229-242. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300252699-026
Heard S. Index. In: Charles Darwin’s Barnacle and David Bowie’s Spider. New Haven: Yale University Press; 2020. p.229-242. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300252699-026
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An engaging history of the surprising, poignant, and occasionally scandalous stories behind scientific names and their cultural significance
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Chapters in this book (28)

Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Introduction: A Lemur and Its Name
1 The Need for Names
2 How Scientific Naming Works
3 Forsythia, Magnolia, and Names Within Names
4 Gary Larson’s Louse
5 Maria Sibylla Merian and the Metamorphosis of Natural History
6 David Bowie’s Spider, Beyoncé’s Fly, and Frank Zappa’s Jellyfish
7 Spurlingia: A Snail for the Otherwise Forgotten
8 The Name of Evil
9 Richard Spruce and the Love of Liverworts
10 Names from the Ego
11 Eponymy Gone Wrong? Robert von Beringe’s Gorilla and Dian Fossey’s Tarsier
12 Less Than a Tribute: The Temptation of Insult Naming
13 Charles Darwin’s Tangled Bank
14 Love in a Latin Name
15 The Indigenous Blind Spot
16 Harry Potter and the Name of the Species
17 Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer and the Fish from the Depths of Time
18 Names for Sale
19 A Fly for Mabel Alexander
EPILOGUE
Notes
Sources and Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Index
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