Taxacom: Anti-eponym publication

[Stephen Thorpe]

 Mike,I suspect that the issue might be a bit more serious than just a handful of sour grapes from authors with nothing named after them. When I was based at University of Auckland (until 2016), there was already talk about this issue, with at least one ecologist saying that eponyms were inappropriate. Unfortunately, it is linked to the whole anti-colonialist woke movement who see forced equal representation as somehow increasing social justice! These nutters are everywhere!Cheers, Stephen
    On Friday, 24 March 2023 at 06:22:59 am NZDT, Michael A. Ivie via Taxacom <taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:  
 
 I have read it, it is nonsense.

If you have a name, it is probably one that has been used before. 
Someone with that name, possibly even the one you were named after, may 
have done something that someone finds offensive. Should you change your 
name?  No.  You are not that offending person, and the name is yours in 
your case, not theirs.  It is a moniker for identification and 
communication. The same goes for species epithets.  They belong to the 
species, not the offending person.

I suspect that none of the authors have had a species named after them, 
and are just jealous.

Mike

On 3/23/2023 11:10 AM, David Campbell via Taxacom wrote:
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> Guedes, P., Alves-Martins, F., Arribas, J.M. *et al.* Eponyms have no place
> in 21st-century biological nomenclature. *Nat Ecol Evol* (2023).
> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1038%2Fs41559-023-02022-y&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C144345384748461c2a3d08db2be32c63%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638152026927816369%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=hsix6kbaQE2pMFQiM4wJYsj0O1V%2FB02eFxSawjIU%2BnA%3D&reserved=0
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> I haven't gotten full access to the text and thus can't assess their
> arguments overall, but I am doubtful that such a sweeping change is in fact
> the best way to solve the problem.  If you try, any name can be a cause for
> complaint.
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