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Moore's Ants

Posted by timothy on Saturday November 9, 2002 @07:57AM from the their-density-will-double-every-18-months dept.

Makarand writes "We all know Moore's Law that predicts the future power of computer chips. He now has an ant named after him. A Harvard biologist named several species of ants that he recently found after people who have supported conservation. One species got Gordon Moore's name."

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Re:Nice thought but... by PEdelman · 2002-11-09 11:01 · Score: 3, Interesting

I'd rather call you old ;-) AFAIK taxonomic names have, except for in the very early days, been arbritarliy chosen. Especially if genera consist of many species it can be very hard to come up with a useful and descriptive name.

For taxonomic curiosities, see this link.

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Auction by Speedy8 · 2002-11-09 20:00 · Score: 3, Interesting

People should auction off the right to the name for plants and animamls to raise money for their protection and advancement. It would kinda make you feel immortal to have an entire speciese named after you... or at least make you want to spend money to protect it.