Should species be named after people? It’s up for debate.

What do Taylor Swift, Jackie Chan, Adolf Hitler and several Nobel Peace laureates all have in common? Over the past 100 years, they’ve all had plants, animals, or other new-to-science species named in their honor. The practice of using eponyms, or scientific names based on real or fictional people, has been in place since the … Continue reading Should species be named after people? It’s up for debate.