Why it's time to stop naming new species after people - PopSci
Anophthalmus hitleri, a cave beetle named after Adolf Hitler, hasbecome a target for some collectors. London's Natural HistoryMuseum/Flickr This article was originally published on Undark.George Washington’s palm tree. Thomas Jefferson’s sloth. EdwardHarris’s hawk. Quite a few species come with a person’s nameattached to them. Sometimes these names — formally known as eponyms— memorialize the original collector. Sometimes it’s a scientist’sfamily member, a benefactor or government leader, a colleague, oreven a celebrity. According to one official estimate, eponyms makeup a...