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Explain?

• klyrs 6y ago
  I'd guess this is a dig at biology's naming tradition, for the purpose of showing that scientists as a whole aren't great at naming either. Or maybe people in general -- check out the wikipedia page for Mohammadabad: looks like there are hundreds of places with that name in Iran
  • astrange 6y ago
    Svante Pääbo's human genetics lab (who discovered Denisovans and sequenced the first Neanderthals) has a policy of not using Latin names for anything, because he thinks they're pretentious but also they don't think any of their discoveries are different species. On the other hand, everyone else who discovers a hominin still gives it a new species name.