Researchers Say It’s Time to Stop Naming Organisms After People

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For some people, the stakes of such decisions can feel high. “Naming and language have power. The way that you use language tells people whether they belong or not,” Earyn McGee, a conservation biologist and organizer of Black Birders Week, told Undark in 2020. The refusal to change species names, she said, “tells Black people and other people of color that they don’t matter, that they’re not important.”

https://undark.org/2023/05/24/researchers-say-its-time-to-stop-naming-organisms-after-people/