Wim,
Er is niet zo lang geleden een voorstel gedaan om alle wetenschappelijke eponymen van organismen te vervangen door andere namen (Guedes et al 2023). Dat heeft veel weerstand gekregen (zowel in de literatuur als op ResearchGate), maar ook medestanders. Ook mildere voorstellen om alleen offensive namen te vervangen (Hammer & Thiele 2021, Smith & Figueiredo 2022) stuitten al op flinke kritiek. Het is een supercontroversieel onderwerp, waarover de laatste 2 jaar veel is geschreven. Voor de liefhebbers van polemieken is hier een lijstje artikelen:
Taxon
Hammer, TA & Thiele, KR 2021. Proposals to amend Articles 51 and 56 and Division III, to allow the rejection of culturally offensive and inappropriate names. Taxon 70(6): 1392–1394.
Smith, GF & Figueiredo, E 2022. “Rhodes-” must fall: some of the consequences of colonialism for botany and plant nomenclature. Taxon 71(1): 1–5.
Mosyakin, SL 2022. If “Rhodes‐” must fall, who shall fall next? Taxon 71(2): 249–255.
Smith, GF, Figueiredo, E, Hammer, TA & Thiele, KR 2022. Dealing with inappropriate honorifics in a structured and defensible way is possible. Taxon 71(5): 933–935.
Thiele, KR, Smith, GF, Figueiredo, E & Hammer, TA 2022. Taxonomists have an opportunity to rid botanical nomenclature of inappropriate honorifics in a structured and defensible way. Taxon 71(6): 1151–1154.
Evolutionary Anthropology
Roksandic, M, Radović, P, Wu, XJ & Bae, CJ 2022a. Resolving the “muddle in the middle”: the case for Homo bodoensis sp. nov. Evolutionary Anthropology 31(1): 20–29.
Sarmiento, EE & Pickford M 2022. Muddying the muddle in the middle even more. Evolutionary Anthropology31(5): 237-239.
Roksandic, M, Radović, P, Wu, XJ & Bae, CJ 2022b. Homo bodoensis and why it matters. Evolutionary Anthropology 31(5): 240–244.
Nature Ecology and Evolution
Guedes, P, Alves-Martins, F, Arribas, JM, Chatterjee, S, Santos, AM, Lewin, A, et al. 2023. Eponyms have no place in 21st-century biological nomenclature. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7: 1157–1160.
Antonelli, A, Farooq, H, Colli-Silva, M, Araújo, JP, Freitas, AV, Gardner, EM, et al. 2023. People-inspired names remain valuable. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7: 1161–1162.
Mabele, MB, Kiwango, WA & Mwanyoka, I 2023. Disrupting the epistemic empire is necessary for a decolonial ecology. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7: 1163.
Jost, L, Yanez-Muñoz, MH, Brito, J, Reyes-Puig, C, Reyes-Puig, JP, Guayasamín, JM et al. 2023. Eponyms are important tools for biologists in the Global South. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7: 1164–1165.
Roksandic, M, Musiba, C, Radović, P, Lindal, J, Wu, XJ, Figueiredo, E et al. 2023. Change in biological nomenclature is overdue and possible. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7: 1166–1167.
Orr, MC, Hughes, AC, Carvajal, OT, Ferrari, RR, Luo, A, et al. 2023. Inclusive and productive ways forward needed for species-naming conventions. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7: 1168–1169.
Thiele, K 2023. Some, but not all, eponyms should be disallowed. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7: 1170.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Ceríaco, LM, Aescht, E, Ahyong, ST, Ballerio, A, Bouchard, P, Bourgoin, T et al. 2023. Renaming taxa on ethical grounds threatens nomenclatural stability and scientific communication: Communication from the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 197(2): 283–286.
Figueiredo, E, Bae, CJ, Radović, P, Wu, XJ, Roksandic, M & Smith, GF 2023. Governance of biological nomenclature: mechanisms to address the needs of end-users are available and not onerous to implement. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 199 (1): 3–4.
Bae, CJ, Radović, P, Wu, XJ, Figueiredo, E, Smith, GF & Roksandic, M 2023. Placing taxonomic nomenclatural stability above ethical concerns ignores societal norms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 199(1): 5-6.
Raposo, MA, da Silva, HR, Francisco, BCS, Vieira, O, da Fonseca, OV, de Assis, CP, et al. 2023. Is stability too revered in zoological nomenclature? Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 199(1): 7–9.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Harris, DJ & Xavier, R 2023. Name and shame: can taxonomists agree on systematic reforms? Trends in Ecology & Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.07.008.
Nature
Garbino, GST 2023. Rethink changing of species names that honour real people. Nature 616: 433.
Megataxa
Pethiyagoda, R 2023. Policing the scientific lexicon: The new colonialism? Megataxa 10(1): 20–25.
Journal of Baltic Science Education
Slabin, U 2023. Should eponyms be kept? Emphatic yes. Journal of Baltic Science Education 22(2): 188–191.
Ukrainian Botanical Journal
Mosyakin, SL 2023. Eponyms in biological nomenclature and the Slippery Slope and Pandora’s Box arguments. Ukrainian Botanical Journal 80(5): 381–385.