A Rose by Any Other Name: Exploring the Controversial History of Taxonomy - October Meeting

Name: A Rose by Any Other Name: Exploring the Controversial History of Taxonomy - October Meeting
Start: 2024-10-09T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Essex County Field Naturalists’ Club; c/o Ojibway Nature Centre, 5200 Matchette Rd., Windsor, ON, Canada

Schedule

Wed Oct 09 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Essex County Field Naturalists’ Club; c/o Ojibway Nature Centre, 5200 Matchette Rd., Windsor, ON, Canada | Windsor, ON

🐶🐾Snoopy is a beagle. A beagle is a dog. A dog is a mammal. And a mammal is an animal. When we put it like that… taxonomy seems simple.
But as guest presenter Grant Munroe will show you, the process of naming and sorting individual organisms within a systemic hierarchy — the practice of taxonomy — has an ancient, fascinating, and often controversial history. From folk taxonomies to the groudbreaking work of Carl Linnaeus, Darwin’s evolutionary theory to contemporary genetic testing, this lecture will take you on a journey over hundreds of years of discovery. A must for anyone interested in learning about the naming of nature, including common names, latin binomials and more!