Eponyms are important tools for biologists in the Global South
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Jost, Lou
Yanez Muñoz, Mario Humberto
Brito, Jorge
Reyes Puig, Carolina
Reyes Puig, Juan Pablo
Guayasamin, Juan Manuel
Ron, Santiago R.
Quintana, Catalina
Iturralde, Gabriel A.
Baquero R., Luis E.
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Guedes et al. argue that eponymous
scientific names, despite their
long tradition in biology, have no
place in the modern world. They
want to erase eponyms assigned
to species in the past and want scientists to
stop naming new species after people. Both
of these proposals would hurt science, and
disproportionately hurt science in the Global
South — the region that is supposed to be the
primary beneficiary of their proposal.
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BIOLOGY