Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: A Lemur and Its Name 1
5. 1 The Need for Names 5
6. 2 How Scientific Naming Works 14
7. 3 Forsythia, Magnolia, and Names Within Names 24
8. 4 Gary Larson’s Louse 31
9. 5 Maria Sibylla Merian and the Metamorphosis of Natural History 39
10. 6 David Bowie’s Spider, Beyoncé’s Fly, and Frank Zappa’s Jellyfish 49
11. 7 Spurlingia: A Snail for the Otherwise Forgotten 57
12. 8 The Name of Evil 64
13. 9 Richard Spruce and the Love of Liverworts 73
14. 10 Names from the Ego 85
15. 11 Eponymy Gone Wrong? Robert von Beringe’s Gorilla and Dian Fossey’s Tarsier 95
16. 12 Less Than a Tribute: The Temptation of Insult Naming 104
17. 13 Charles Darwin’s Tangled Bank 115
18. 14 Love in a Latin Name 129
19. 15 The Indigenous Blind Spot 140
20. 16 Harry Potter and the Name of the Species 152
21. 17 Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer and the Fish from the Depths of Time 162
22. 18 Names for Sale 172
23. 19 A Fly for Mabel Alexander 182
24. EPILOGUE 193
25. Notes 203
26. Sources and Further Reading 207
27. Acknowledgments 227
28. Index 229