{"id":242394,"date":"2024-01-04T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/when-species-names-are-offensive-should-they-be-changed\/"},"modified":"2024-01-04T09:28:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T09:28:06","slug":"when-species-names-are-offensive-should-they-be-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/when-species-names-are-offensive-should-they-be-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"When Species Names Are Offensive, Should They Be Changed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"article__block article__block--textBlock article__block--drop-cap article__block--drop-cap-a\">\n<p>A few years ago, Tim Hammer realized suddenly that his research was haunted by a very unpleasant ghost. Hammer is a botanist. He was just beginning a postdoctoral position at the University of Adelaide, working on the taxonomy of <em>Hibbertia<\/em>, a genus of plants commonly known as guinea flowers. Hammer found that the genus was even more diverse than scientists had previously understood, and soon he was working on descriptions of dozens of new species.<\/p>\n<p>Hammer began to wonder about the genus\u2019s namesake, an Englishman named George Hibbert. Botanical texts described him as a \u201cpatron of botany.\u201d But he was more than that, Hammer learned. Hibbert, who died in 1837, was a slave owner and, as a member of the British Parliament, a leading opponent of abolition. Hammer thought it was unseemly that an enslaver\u2019s name would still be&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/features\/renaming-species-offensive-names-taxonomy-nomenclature\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at e360.yale.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, Tim Hammer realized suddenly that his research was haunted by a very unpleasant ghost. Hammer is a botanist. 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