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What's in a name?
Humans are great communicators. We share our experiences and thoughts with others, and when we see something that interests us we want to describe it. But that presents us with a problem because in order to describe an object it must have a name, and it must be a name that others will understand.
Michael Allaby, Editor of A Dictionary of Plant Sciences explores the need for a classificatory system and looks at answering the question 'what's in a name?' Read on to find out more.
