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“containing nearly over 24,500 described species” who edited this. What do you mean nearly over. It’s either over or it’s not. I’m not a mathematician but I think that’s how numbers usually work

This whole last section is a lot lol. “After two divorces though, he steered wad of naming moths after ladies” (let the man rest in peace damn) “La cucaracha” (this is a species name) “When taxonomists want to name a large group of species they are sometimes imaginative, unlike William Kearfott…” PS this says moth is from old english “moooe” which looked wrong to me… it’s actually “moþþe”

Why is this written in the same style and difficulty level as most of my required university readings. Like I’m sorry this has taken me months to get halfway through but who is this even for