Naming the menagerie: creativity, culture and consequences in the formation of scientific names.

These changes could reflect changes in the training of those who name species, as more species are named by scientists who are not classically trained taxonomists or who have less familiarity with Latin and Greek; however, these hypotheses would be difficult to test. A notable feature of the etymological patterns in table 2 is that they vary among the surveyed taxa (and this variation is highly significant: p < 10 −7 ).

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