Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's SpiderAn engaging history of the surprising, poignant, and occasionally scandalous stories behind scientific names and their cultural significance, "More fun than youve ever had with taxonomy in your whole entire life!" (Diana Gabaldon, author of the Outlander series and PhD in Quantitative Behavioral Ecology) Ever since Carl Linnaeuss binomial system of scientific names was adopted in the eighteenth century, scientists have been eponymously naming