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- From: andrewt@watson.ibm.com (Andrew Taylor)
- Subject: Re: Cultural bias in taxonomy
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:46:18 GMT
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- In article <C185ML.2MC@brunel.ac.uk> mt90dac@brunel.ac.uk (Del Cotter) writes:
- >BTW, I remember one interesting study was made of names for the flora
- >and fauna of Papua New Guinea. It turned out that there was very little
- >inconsistency between the local and Linnaean classifications. Can
- >anyone recall the reference, please?
-
- You probably talking about Ernst Mayr's work on birds in the Arfak Mountains
- in New Guinea in the 1920s. The local people's names matched the 136
- species he found there with one exception. They gave the same name to
- two very similar species. You'd probably find this described in one
- of his books.
-
- Andrew Taylor
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